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First Sketch of parachute made by Leonardo Da Vinci. The sketch was in a more favourable proportion proportion to the weight of the jumper.
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Fausto Verancio, designed, built and showed his own parachute.
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Constructed a device based on Da Vinci's drawing and jumped from a Venice tower. He called that parachute Homo Volans.
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He dropped a dog in a basket, to which was attached to a parachute, from a balloon high in the air
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He was the first person recorded to jump with a parachute without a rigid frame.
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Robert Cocking became the first person to die from a parachute.
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Captain Thomas Baldwin was the first person the invent the parachute harness.
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Paul Letterman and Kathchen Paulus where the first to invent a method to fold a parachute in a bag.
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The first person to manually open and freefall was 15 year old Broadwick in San Diego.
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Lesley Irvin was the first to test the new Model A parachute when he jumped off a biplane.
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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.
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The 82nd Infantry Division became the first paratrooper division, the 82nd Airborne Division.
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On 1944, 20,000 paratroopers landed on Normady, D-Day.
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On 1969, the Apollo command capsule used three parachute to land back on earth.
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On 1997, a rover was shot to Mars and landed thanks to a parachute, the rover then proceeded to take photos of the terrain.
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Adrian Nichoalas created and tested Da Vinci's parachute, it ended up working.
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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.
