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Leonardo Da Vinci, First sketch of a parachute existed
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Fauste Veranzio invented the parachute and he tested it personally
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Jean Pierre was the first person to use a parachute in an emergency of a dog
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was the First person to jmp with a parachute redorded without rigid frame
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Robert Cocking was the first person to die from an parachute accident
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Captain Thomas Baldwin was the first person to invent the parachute Harness
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Paul Letteman and Kathchen Paulus invented the method of folding the parachute into a knapsack to be worn on the back before jumping.
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Adrian NIcholas built a prototype based completely on Da Vinci’s drawings and tested it. He was launched from a hot air balloon in his parachute from a height of 10,000 feet over the wide-open grasslands of Mpumalanga, South Africa. Nicholas had created the parachute from the same materials that would have been available to Da Vinci in his time.
