I'm scared to go Parachuting! too much free fall
That's so true. What's the minimum fall?
Not sure about minimum fall but it was first tested by leaping from a hydrogen balloon over Paris
Oh Cool! Paris,the fashion capitol of the world, I have to see it!
Same! the paris jump happened in 1797.
Paris was originally a Roman city. Maybe they should have left that to the Romans! LOL
. 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
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