Photograph: Wed 26th June 1918 - Capt Bowen dropping at Grossa aerodrome.

From a collection of photographs collected by Lt Col John Fillis Carré Carter whilst serving in Intelligence in Italy during World War One (1914-1918). Two trials of a device for dropping a man by parachute through the floor of an Italian Savoia-Pomilio SP4 aircraft, conducted by the RAF at Grossa and S Pelagio aerodromes in June 1918.
Printed by the Photographic Section, AP and SS, Italy, 1918.
View from below of a parachutist descending from an SP4 aircraft, 1918.