Falling backwards and plunging through clouds: British paratroopers’ landing on Tristan da Cunha
The Guardian World ·
T he hardest part of the parachute jump, according to Capt George Lacey, is falling backwards through the air. It is Saturday and Lacey, and his squad of six plus two medics, have just leapt out of …
T he hardest part of the parachute jump, according to Capt George Lacey, is falling backwards through the air. It is Saturday and Lacey, and his squad of six plus two medics, have just leapt out of an RAF transport, 2,500 metres over the south Atlantic. “The parachute can only go forward so quickly,” he says, meaning that it has to be pulled at precisely the right moment. …
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