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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 ade
by André-Jacques Garnerin, the inventor of
the parachute, on 22 October 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 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 descent was not
planned. Broadwick cut her static line and
deployed her parachute manually, only as a
means of freeing herself from the aircraft to
which she had become entangled.
emergencies
aboard balloons and aircraft in flight,
and later as a way of delivering soldiers to
the battlefield. Early competitions date back
to the 1930s, and it became an international
sport in 1952.
Sky diving is has a very limited scope in India
compare to other air sports. Parachuting is
the action of exiting an aircraft or jumping off
of a tall structure, and returning to earth.
The top 5 places for skydiving in India are
Mysore
(Karnataka),
Deesa
(Gujarat),
Pondicherry
(TN),
Aamby
Valley
(Maharashtra) & Dhana (MP).
The sports authority of Gujarat is in the
process of developing the state as a
destination for adventure aero sports,
especially skydiving. Indian parachuting
federation promotes and organizes sky
diving in India.
The
military
developed
parachuting
technology as a way to save aircrews from
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