parachute

     

A parachute is a evice used to slow the motion of an object through an atmosphere by creating drag.

Trivia about parachute

  • Though he may not have tried it himself, da Vinci designed what is probably the 1st of these "fall-breakers"
  • It's the item you'll learn to master & depend on at the Army's Jump School
  • The first free-fall jump using one of these devices was from a damaged airplane in 1922
  • Raindrops aren't teardrop shaped; small ones are round, while the largest are shaped like this vital skydiving gear
  • If you're wearing silks, you're on a horse; if you "hit the silk", you're strapped into one of these
  • This device that helps you land safely after jumping out of a plane is French for "prepare to fall"
  • It was used in the 1780s, long before the airplane; Gleb Kotelnikov first put one in a knapsack in 1911
  • If the $1200 response gets in big trouble--brake loop,canopy,stabilizer