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And we now have “new” one

1st Lieut Francis Butler Loomis Jr August 5th 1929 while training at NAS Pensacola
and the aircraft being Curtiss F6C-4, A-7422.

Saves Life with Parachute. By tha Associated Press PENSACOLA, Fla.. Aug. 6th; Lieut. F. B. Loomis of the Marine Corps owes his life to the perfect working of a silken parachute which he carried when he went into the air maneuvers aa part of his combat course yesterday. He was flying at an altitude of $000 feet when his plane failed to right Itself. The flyer Jumped with his parachute and suffered only slight injuries. , The plane crashed near the Osceola Club golf links, several miles distant, and was demolished.

August 6, 1929
A Publisher Extra Newspaper
St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri · Page 4