oogeej t1_iwo2hro wrote on November 17, 2022 at 1:45 AM

I hope those weren't at the same time.

"I'm breaking barriers, yay!" [moments later] "Oh crap how do you work this thing!?"

Honey_Overall t1_iwnxb77 wrote on November 17, 2022 at 1:05 AM

Even more fortunate, she got to be the first person to survive doing that. Doesn't always work out that way.

chroniclunatic t1_iwo3uqm wrote on November 17, 2022 at 1:56 AM

And she was the first to survive a car accident with the first air bag on the ride home

[deleted] t1_iwntqof wrote on November 17, 2022 at 12:37 AM

"Youngest Girl Aeronaut"

Unexpectedly cool

SEND_PUNS_PLZ t1_iwoikh8 wrote on November 17, 2022 at 3:57 AM

In those days it was rare for malfunctioning parachutes to be womanually deployed

manInTheWoods t1_iwx5xpy wrote on November 19, 2022 at 12:50 AM

"Georgia married at 12, and had a daughter, Verla, at 13. After her husband was killed in an accident, she had to work 14-hour days in a cotton mill to support her little family. "

I guess parachuting isn't that bad then.

TIL about Georgia “Tiny” Broadwick, the first woman to parachute from an airplane and the first person to manually deploy a parachute after a malfunction.

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