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July 21, 2013 at 12:19 am in reply to: Help w 1927 Irving Air Chute Co Small Parachute – What IS it? #1009287

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The depth is from crown to rim of the actual silk and doesn’t include the cords. I can measure the cords if that would be of any use.

So you’re leaning towards it being used to drop food/mail/newspapers to places difficult to access via roads? Likely privately done as opposed to government/military?

July 20, 2013 at 10:23 pm in reply to: Help w 1927 Irving Air Chute Co Small Parachute – What IS it? #1009320

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Thanks, Lazy 8! I found a great write up online about Irvin(g), but nothing that seemed to help with this in particular. Wonder to whom dropping packets would have been appropriate in the 1927 time period? It’s a touch early for stock brokers to have run away from NY to the Alaska tundra to be needing food drops, lol.
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