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Sketch of Parachute
First Sketch of parachute made by Leonardo Da Vinci. The sketch was in a more favourable proportion proportion to the weight of the jumper. -
Fausto Verancio's parachute
Fausto Verancio, designed, built and showed his own parachute. -
Parachute inveted by Fauste
Constructed a device based on Da Vinci's drawing and jumped from a Venice tower. He called that parachute Homo Volans. -
Jean Pierre used parachute
He dropped a dog in a basket, to which was attached to a parachute, from a balloon high in the air -
Andrew Garnerin jumped with a parachute
He was the first person recorded to jump with a parachute without a rigid frame. -
Dead in a parachute
Robert Cocking became the first person to die from a parachute. -
The First Portable Parachute.
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Captain Thomas Baldwin nd the first parachute harness
Captain Thomas Baldwin was the first person the invent the parachute harness. -
The First Portable Parachute
Paul Letterman and Kathchen Paulus where the first to invent a method to fold a parachute in a bag. -
First FreeFall
The first person to manually open and freefall was 15 year old Broadwick in San Diego. -
Moldel A parachute
Lesley Irvin was the first to test the new Model A parachute when he jumped off a biplane. -
First actual freefall
Originally pilots were trained to pull the cord the second they jump, but Lieutenant Harold R Harris could not find his cord and fell 2,000 feet before pulling it. His only complaint of it was a tear in his best pair of pants. -
The First Paratroopers
The 82nd Infantry Division became the first paratrooper division, the 82nd Airborne Division. -
Paratroopers
On 1944, 20,000 paratroopers landed on Normady, D-Day. -
Apollo 11
On 1969, the Apollo command capsule used three parachute to land back on earth. -
Parachutes in space
On 1997, a rover was shot to Mars and landed thanks to a parachute, the rover then proceeded to take photos of the terrain. -
The Da Vinci parachute
Adrian Nichoalas created and tested Da Vinci's parachute, it ended up working. -
What the parachute has become
It stared as an idea to help people jump from high places and be able to land. Now the use that same idea but for simple fun or for sports and modern military.
