Before I die, I want to parachute with a little bit of a freefall before the chute opens
Me too! It's on my bucket list! Where are you planning on skydiving?
Not sure yet but have you ever seen the bucket list directed by Rob Reiner?
I've seen bits and pieces of it. It looked like a really great movie! I wonder when parachuting first got started?
The first jump was made in 1797 by Garnerin
That long ago?! Wow! I had no idea! Do you know what country he was from?
André-Jacques Garnerin
André-Jacques Garnerin (31 January, 1769 – 18 August, 1823) was a French balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute. He was appointed Official Aeronaut of France.
Biography.
Garnerin was born in Paris. He was captured by British troops during the first phase of the French Revolutionary Wars 1792–1797, turned over to the Austrians and held as a prisoner of war in Buda in Hungary for three years.
Balloons and parachutes.
Balloons and parachutes Ballooning.
Garnerin,
ever imagined, and I'm, I'm not so sure I like this. I mean, yes, you're glorious and beautiful, but you're ugly, too. Your breath reeks of death!… Am I so pitiful that you can sneer in my face like that? Yes, yes, you frighten me! "You hurt me!" I've felt your claws ripping through my soul! But I'm going to die someday, and before I can do that, I've got to face you