Show first chute leap in century leonardo da vinci records jump from church new york the parachute Is practically as old as aviation itself it Is the fruit of the genius of leonardo dit da vinci who gave to the world the first aeronautical engineering and design da vinct after establishing a theory of flight next made the necessary mathematical computations for a workable parachute although his chute I 1 I 1 was square with four shroud lines attached to each corner it worked at least once alg fausto an architecture student was taken mostly with the parachute idea the other students art engineering and mathematics all preferred the da vencl glider models however did have the good judgment to make I 1 ills his pioneer jump in his native cit alty venice V making the four shroud lines fas faan around his bis waist he be jumped from tile the 11 top of one of the churches that bor dered the main canal what happened to thereafter history record I 1 with the death of da vinci in 1519 1510 all interest in flying parachute jumping included came to a standstill it until ballooning became lar in europe late in the eighteenth J century that it appen appeared red again aga in toj to andre jacques Gar Garner nerin ln the first official nero aeronaut of france goes the distinction lon of having made the first parachute jump from an aircraft in flight he cut loose from a balloon flying over paris on october 22 1797 we have no record just why the man should have become imbued with the idea that lie he could land comfortably when and if sufficient wind resistance were attached to his body but since he was a well read student it Is 14 easy to believe that he had come upon da cincis voluminous notes parachuting in america came into accidental being through a misadventure of this count rys pioneer balloonist capt john wise captain wise had been attached to count zeppelins zeppelina Zepp elins observatory balloon section in the union army after the close of hostilities tili ties captain wise took up exhibition ballooning on one flight his balloon was caught in a chonle twister and had all of the wrung out of it As the balloon started to fall the envelope was pushed into the top of the net by the upward rush of air where it became in substance a parachute based on this experience he designed and used the first parachute seen la in this country |