The idea of parachuting scares me. I'm so worried about if the parachute failed, plus I'm scared of heights! Have you ever done a sky dive?
No, I haven't! I'm scared too even though parachutes have been around since 1797.
Wow, I had no idea they had been around so long! Do you know who first invented them?
. Garnerin tested his contraption by leaping from a hydrogen balloon above Paris. Garnerin's parachute bore little resemblance to today's parachutes, however, as it was not packed into any sort of container and did not feature a ripcord. The first intentional free-fall jump with a ripcord-operated deployment was not made until over a century later by Leslie Irvin in 1919. While Georgia Broadwick made an earlier free-fall in 1914 when her static line became entangled with her jump aircraft's tail assembly, her free-fall
xenophobes in the country, I haven't been this scared since the Cuban Missile Crisis. I think the human race is hanging in a delicate balance right now, and I'm just so afraid he will put us in a war. He scares me."
Books.
- (Van Dyke's memoir)
External links.
- — PDF Article
- Dick Van Dyke -Disney Legends profile (requires Flash)
- Dick Van Dyke talks about his career for the Archive of American Television Arts and Sciences