hi do you know a lot about skydiving? Ive been looking a lot at it but im quite scared of heights.
They also call that parachuting, right? You pretty much jump off a high point and allow yourself to descend while wearing a parachute.
either one yea, i guess parachuting is different tho, is it safe?
I think it's fairly safe, as long as it's done right. The first parachute jump on October 22, 1797 by Andre-Jacques Garnerin, the inventor of the parachute.
wow that long ago? Where was the guy from?
André-Jacques Garnerin was born in Paris, France.
wow thats cool, what else is there to know about parachuting?
. 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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