Georgia Ann "Tiny" Thompson Broadwick (April 8, 1893 in Oxford, North Carolina – August 25, 1978 in Long Beach, California), or Georgia Broadwick, previously known as Georgia Jacobs, and later known as Georgia Brown, was an American pioneering parachutist and the inventor of the ripcord.[1] She was the first woman to jump from an airplane, and the first person to jump from a seaplane.[2]
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- ^ Ritter, Lisa (May 2010). "Pack Man". Air & Space Magazine. p. 2. Retrieved 3 June 2020.