Colette Duval was born in 1930 in Ruesnes, Nord, France. Colette Duval, who was born in 1930 and died in 1988, was a parachutist with the French mannequin haute couture. She began in this discipline in 1951 in Saint-Yan, at the age of 21 ye... (Full Biography Below)
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Colette Duval was born in 1930 in Ruesnes, Nord, France. Colette Duval, who was born in 1930 and died in 1988, was a parachutist with the French mannequin haute couture. She began in this discipline in 1951 in Saint-Yan, at the age of 21 years. On August 28, 1955 above Cannes, it jumps to about 8600 meters altitude from an aircraft Nord 2501. Missing drowning, his record will not be approved due to lack of precision on the exact height of his jump. In 1956, it has a binding (mediated) with the stunt car Gil Delamare. During a stay of the couple in Brazil in the summer, she jumps on the 23rd of may, a bombardier Superforteresse B29 loaned by the local army above the bay of Rio de Janeiro, from an altitude of more than 37.500 ft (12080 meters according to the control tower local). She opens his parachute at 250 meters from the level of the ocean, a drop of more than 11830 meters. Rescued from the Atlantic ocean, his world record will not be finally no longer registered, all regulatory requirements have not been met, the control tower was not aware of it. In 1958, she established a best international performance with eight other parachutists (including Gil Delamare and Andernos Mosconi) in Blida, jumping from a height of 7000 meters of night. The same year, she played her own role in the film A bullet in the barrel. Colette Duval, a model-paratrooper and recordwoman famous in France, had not well succeeded in his jump demonstration at the meeting of Ecuvillens, in the summer of 1958. It will also be a distribution in A moonlight in Maubeuge (1962), Death of a rotten " (1977), Man in a hurry (1977), and Sauve-toi, Lola (1986). One folder is devoted to him in Aviation Magazine International n°134, 26 may 1955, following his exploits in south america.
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