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  2. Category:History of parachuting - Wikipedia

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    Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Help. Category for the history of parachuting; sport or the military/combat ...

  3. Gleb Kotelnikov - Wikipedia

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    In 1924 Kotelnikov for the first time applied the soft packing of parachute instead of a hard casing. [3] He produced some of the earliest cargo parachutes, and was a contemporary to the start of the parachuting sport in Russia in 1930 [2] and the creation of the Soviet Airborne Troops the same year (the first paratrooping force in history). [2]

  4. Jacques-André Istel - Wikipedia

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    Jacques-André Istel was born in France to Yvonne Istel, who had been a prominent volunteer in World War I and who would later also volunteer during World War II, [5] and André Istel, an investment banker and diplomat, representing the de Gaulle government [6] at the 1944 Bretton Woods conference.

  5. Category:Parachuting - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... History of parachuting (6 C, 25 P) M. Military parachuting (9 C, 28 P) O. Parachuting organizations (1 C, 23 ...

  6. Lew Sanborn - Wikipedia

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    Lewis “Lew” Sanborn, D-1 and Jacques André Istel, D-2, established sport skydiving in the United States in the 1950s. [3] Sanborn started jumping with the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division and later became a member of the U.S. Parachute Team, master rigger, private and commercial pilot, instructor, national judge and world-record holder. [3]

  7. James Floyd Smith - Wikipedia

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    The first tests, using dummies, favored Floyd Smith's parachute design. This winning design was further developed and merged key features into the "Type A" parachute: a soft pack worn on the back; a rip cord to deploy the parachute; and a spring-assisted pilot chute to aid in main parachute deployment. [13]

  8. André-Jacques Garnerin - Wikipedia

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    André-Jacques Garnerin was born in Paris. During the first phase of the French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1797), he was captured by British troops. Subsequently, he was turned over to the Austrians and held as a prisoner of war in Buda, Hungary, for three years.

  9. Tiny Broadwick - Wikipedia

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    Broadwick ready to drop from a Martin T airplane piloted by Glenn Martin.. Georgia Ann "Tiny" Thompson Broadwick (April 8, 1893 in Oxford, North Carolina – August 25, 1978 in Long Beach, California), [1] [2] or Georgia Broadwick, previously known as Georgia Jacobs, and later known as Georgia Brown, was an American pioneering parachutist and the inventor of the ripcord. [3]