A new life-saving device for airmen shot down in serial combat was tested recently at the London air station. The device is intended to lift an airman out of his machine automatically when it is diving out of control and to gently float him down to earth.
The instant the pilot finds his machine is out of control he flings out a pocket parachute, which, opening the rush of wind, drags out another and larger parachute, which in its turn, pens and lifts the pilot from his seat while the airplane continues its headlong dive to earth.
From The Oxford Ledger, June 6, 1922
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