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[[red underline]] simply jumped out the [[/red underline]] machine, [[strikethrough]] and then [[/strikethrough]] but had no [[red underline]] sensation of falling. [[/red underline]] After a while he wondered whether his parachute was going to open but on [[red underline]] looking up saw it was open. [[/red underline]] then [[strikethrough]] finally [[/strikethrough]] saw the city come nearer until he tried to clear [[red underline]] telegraph wires [[/red underline]] in a street, by jerking one way so that the parachute kept [[red underline]] caught in the wires while he landed on the ground. [[/red underline]] He says [[red underline]] sensation [[/red underline]] is about the same as if you jumped from the first ^[[low?]] story of a house, not enough to hurt you but about [[red underline]] enough to throw you over. [[/red underline]]
Before going to lunch [[red underline]] Orville Wright [[/red underline]] had driven me to a little house [[strikethrough]] on a lonel [[/strikethrough]] on old farm house situated on a lonely plot. Some other motor cars were 
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already there. In front room we saw the new smaller unfinished first specimen of [[red underline]] Sperry's scheme, which will carry 200 lbs. of explosive. all this has been done in a hurry [[/red underline]] less than 12 days. Type of motor and general design had been selected and general design looked acceptable. [[red underline]] I was so much impressed with the possibilities that I took Col. Deeds aside to request him to impress the onlookers (18 in all) with the gravity of the situation [[/red underline]] so that this clever invention [[red underline]] may not become a boomerang to the Allies, thru indiscretion as well as thru spies. [[/red underline]] He and [[red underline]] Carthy [[/red underline]] agreed heartily with me and [[red underline]] Deeds [[/red underline]] made a very serious speech urging absolute secrecy and [[red underline]] Col. Hall [[/red underline]] administer to all a [[red underline]] solemn oath [[/red underline]] no to tell to others what they had seen. I still feel