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Albert Berry (born March 1, 1878, date of death unknown) [citation needed] was one of two people credited as the first person to make a successful parachute jump from a powered airplane. Berry made his pioneering jump on March 1, 1912, in St. Louis, Missouri, leaping from a Benoist pusher biplane. [1] [2] [3]
An article in Air & Space/Smithsonian magazine (dated February 29 and March 1, 2012) [9] makes a claim that U.S. Army Captain Albert Berry was the first to jump from a powered airplane on March 1, 1912 (with Anthony Jannus as his pilot) and that Morton did so on April 28, 1912, which would give priority to Berry, providing it was Morton's first airplane jump and not his second or third.
Albert Berry became the first person to make a parachute jump from an airplane in flight, leaping from above the Jefferson Barracks near St. Louis, after being taken aloft by pilot Tony Jannus. A few months earlier, Berry had been tried in connection with a lynching in Pennsylvania. [3]
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Franz Reichelt (16 October 1878 – 4 February 1912), also known as Frantz Reichelt [1] or François Reichelt, was an Austro-Hungarian-born [2] French tailor, inventor and parachuting pioneer, now sometimes referred to as the Flying Tailor, who is remembered for jumping to his death from the Eiffel Tower while testing a wearable parachute of his own design.
The two-seater prototype plane made the test flight in good weather and to promote renewable energy. Parachutist Raphael Domjan reached a speed of 150 kilometers per hour during his jump, landing ...
The top-secret story of Queen Elizabeth's famous Olympics skydiving cameo with Daniel Craig. ... While the actual jump, of course, was performed by body doubles, the camaraderie the queen and ...
At Kinloch Field in St. Louis, Missouri, on March 1, 1912, Albert Berry made the first successful parachute jump, from a Benoist Aircraft, designed and built by Hugh Robinson and Thomas W. Benoist. He landed safely on the Jefferson Barracks parade grounds. The parachute and the apparatus used to support and release it were also designed and ...