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On April 28, 1919, the first freefall parachute jump with Army Air Corps parachutist Les Irvin took place.
Early Free-Fall Parachute
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The first crazy person to jump out of a perfectly good airplane!
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LTC Stephen C.
That was simply the first successful freefall, Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen! In fact, “on 22 October 1797, pioneering balloonist André-Jacques Garnerin became the modern world's first successful [static line] parachutist.”
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https://www.fai.org/news/garnerin-1797
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https://www.fai.org/news/garnerin-1797
1797 - The modern world's first parachute jump
Two-hundred and twenty years ago today, on 22 October 1797, pioneering balloonist André-Jacques Garnerin became the modern world's first successful parachutist.Born on 31 January 1769 in Paris, France, Garnerin reportedly first came up with the concept of a parachute whilst a prisoner in a Hungarian prison during the French Revolution – he was looking for a means of escape.He never got to try it out in prison, but the idea never left him.
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Good morning. Thanks for posting the short article on early parachuting. I thought it was in the later '20's not 1919.
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