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noun - performing acrobatics in free fall before pulling the ripcord of a parachute
verb - jump from an airplane and perform various maneuvers before opening one's parachute
SKYDIVING - Parachuting, or skydiving, is a method of transiting from a high point to Earth with the aid of gravity, involving the control of speed during the de...
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| World's fastest sport, free-fall speeds of 614 MPH have been recorded in this |
| Now a sport that can include a 10,000 foot free fall to a target, the equipment dates back to 1797 |
| Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane |
| Look, ma! No plane & no parachute! A Vegas wind tunnel lets you experience indoor this, aka bodyflight |
| A canopy,risers,ripcord pins |
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Parachuting, or skydiving, is a method of transiting from a high point to Earth with the aid of gravity, involving the control of speed during the descent with the use of a parachute/s. It may involve more or less free-falling which is a period when the parachute has not yet been deployed and the body gradually accelerates to terminal velocity. * The first parachute jump in history was made by André-Jacques Garnerin, the inventor of the parachute, on October 22 1797. Garnerin tested his contraption by leaping from a hydrogen balloon 3,200 feet (980 m) 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 freefall 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 freefall in 1914 when her static line became entangled with her jump aircraft's tail assembly, her |