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1514
Da vinci parachute
The first known pictorial evidence of the drag principal appeared in the sketchbook of Leonardo da Vinci in 1514. -
Fausto Veranzio
In 1595, Fausto Veranzio, a Hungarian mathematician living in Italy, published the idea of a parachute being used as a "fall breaker", and described several successful trial jumps which he claimed to have made from a tower in Venice -
Animal parachute
Jean Pierre Blanchard dropped a dog in a basket in which a parachute was attached from a balloon high in the air. -
First recorded parachute jump
Andrew Garnerin became the first person recorded to jump with a parachute without a rigid frame. -
Harness
Robert Cocking became the first person to die from a parachute accident. -
Foldable chute
Paul Letteman and Kathchen Paulus invented the method of folding or packing the parachute in a knapsack to be worn on a person's back before its release. Kathchen Paulus was also behind the invention of the intentional breakaway, which is when one small parachute opens first and pulls open the main -
First soft parachute
In 1793, Blanchard claimed to have escaped from a hot air balloon that exploded with a parachute.Blanchard, it should be noted, did develop the first foldable parachute made from silk. Up until that point all parachutes were made with rigid frames. -
1919
Leslie L. Irving went in a USD-5 aircraft at an altitude of 1500ft and an airspeed of 80 knots and free-fell for a short distance and pule a ripcord wich opened the parachute -
The Hoffman ttiangle parachute
Major Hoffman, after leaving the Army, formed his own company and developed the gliding Hoffman Triangle parachute. -
Aircraft recovery by parachute
Recovery of private planes by parachute was accomplished in the late twenties by the Hoffman Parachute Company and at least one other company. -
Russian airborn troops
The Russian Army, in about 1930, started to equip and train Army units with parachutes for airborne operations. Little is known of this development. -
Paratroops
the United States established an official paratroop training program at Fort Benning, Georgia. -
Rogallo wing
The Rogallo Wing, so named after its inventor Francis Rogallo, of the NASA- Langley Research Center, consists of a triangular self-inflatable wing. This maneuverable parachute has been extensively investigated by NASA and several contractors for the land landing of such spacecraft as Gemini, Apollo and several follow-on studies -
Parachute jumping
Parachute jumping as a sport began in the 1960s when new "sports parachutes" were first designed. -
Parafoil Maneuverable Parachute
Domina Jalbert "proposed a ram-air Inflated textile wing for kites and parachutes, commonly called the parafoil or the square parachute -
BPA
British Parachute Association (BPA) was formed in 1961 and incorporated as a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee in 1966 -
Us attack
in South Vietnam the United States Army carried out an airborne attack involving 800 paratroopers to gain a positional advantage over opposing North Vietnamese forces. -
Adrian Nicholas
the British skydiver Adrian Nicholas resolved to put da Vinci's idea to the test. Nicholas and the da Vinci parachute successfully flew on July 25, 2000.]
