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Broadwick - 18

couldn't give it all up at once. It had come to mean too much to me.

Q: Did you ever do any flying?

Broadwick: No. No, I don't have a license, but Martin used to let me fly his plane back and forth over the parks. I never took any lessons. In fact, he said at that time he would teach me to fly, but the parachute work was making more money, had more attraction -- it meant more quick money than learning to fly.

Q: Did you find it more fun to parachute than to fly a plane?

Broadwick: Well, more thrilling. I still thank it's more thrilling to go down in a parachute than to fly around.

Q: As you look back over your career in parachuting, what would you say was the most exciting day? What was the thing you did with Glenn Martin in 1913?

Broadwick: We flew over Los Angeles carrying a lot of slips for merchandise -- you could buy clothes, shoes -- from all appearances, the program was very successful. Most of it came around Christmas time, where everyone could get a discount on whatever item they had, that it called for.

Q: The articles say the Broadwick family had been jumping for generations back--?

Broadwick: Well, that was Mr. Broadwick's name (claim?) -- I think he in some way had that copyrighted, and of course he and his wife were jumpers -- his wife jumped before I did -- and it goes back to 1902 or something like that, early.