This short, but very interesting British Pathe news clip, shows what is claimed to be the First Motorcycle Parachute Jump; it occurred at the Huntington Cliff near Los Angeles in 1926. In it you will watch as rider Fred Osborne straps on a parachute, hops on his machine powered by an in-line four and then after a bit of a run guides it off of the top of a cliff and survives the landing.

The video courtesy of British Pathe shows Osborne at the end talking and giving the appearance that the jump went OK and he survived in good condition. In reality he did not; a Popular Science Monthly April 1927 article (below) tells us a different story.

The Los Angeles area The Evening Independent on November 18, 1926, reported that the telephone and telegraph lines helped to break his fall, and doctors reported that he will probably recover from his injuries.