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Andrew Garnerin Parachute Jump
Andrew Garnerin became the first person recorded to jump with a parachute without a rigid frame. -
1st person dead
Robert Cocking became the first person to die from a parachute accident. -
1st harness invented
Captain Thomas Baldwin invented the first parachute harness -
BackPacked
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 -
1st Jump From Airplane
Two parachuters claim to be the first person to jump from an airplane. Both Grant Morton and Captain Albert Berry parachuted from an airplane in 1911. -
1st Freefall
Georgia "Tiny" Broadwick made the first freefall jump. -
The Tower Build
Stanley Switlik and George Palmer Putnam,formed a joint venture and built a 115-foot tall tower on Stanley's farm in Ocean County. Designed to train airmen in parachute jumping -
The 1st public jump
the first public jump from the tower was made by Ms. Earhart on June 2, 1935 -
The Sport it is today
Parachute jumping as a sport began in the 1960s when new "sports parachutes" were first designed.
