Parachuting's Unforgettable Jumps III- New Completely Revised Third Edition - Formerly Titled the Falcon's Disciples

Redondo Beach Caifornia: Howard Gregory Associates, 1987. Third Edition First Printing . Hard Back. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 6" X 9 1/4. 426 Pages Indexed. Bound with stiff laminated pictorial boards. Front cover is Norman Kent's historic April 4, 1983 photo of the first voyage of the Space Shuttle Challenger lifting into orbit while 16 Jumpers hook up over Deland, Florida. Five-line inked gift inscription on front endpaper. No other marks or stamps and interior text pages are clean and white. First Edition released under a 1967 copyright as The Falcon's Disciples. This book is the Completely Revised 1987 Third Edition. There several sections containing over 300 black and white photographs. Contents in 25 Chapters: The Parachute Pioneers, The First Paratroops, Parachuting Into Hitler's Festung Europa, Devils in Baggy Pants, An Entire Airborne Army Assault, The Airborne on the Continent of Asia, The Father of American Sport Parachuting, Skydiving Editor, Those Daring Young Men, A Funny Thing Happened As I Plunged To My Doom, Stuntman, Jump Pilot, Sex In The Sky, They Track for Glory, He Recommends Skydiving for His Patients, Those Unforgettable Jumps, The Falcon Breed, The Golden Knights, The Greatest Stunt, The World's Greatest Ski Jump, D.B. Cooper Where Are You, Filming the Gypsy Moths, Parachuting In The Space Age, The Glory of Parachuting, and Building Antenna Span Earth - Base Jumpers. This book is Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Parachuting.