![Grande Prairie from the air, 1928.](https://www.southpeacearchives.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/2003.5.21.jpg)
A “life-saving” new type of parachute was tested at the local airport using bags of mud harnessed to the chute and heaved out a plane at 1,000 feet. This demonstration may have served more to advertise plane rides at the local Elks Carnival than as a serious experiment. There was great praise for Mrs. Fox of the Singer Sewing Machine Co. for her services in making the chutes.
![Grande Prairie Herald ~ June 26, 1931](https://www.southpeacearchives.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Chute-test.jpg)