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• Squadron Leader Harry Ward, AFC, Parachutist, Dies at Age 97
  In the heyday of the travelling air circuses of the 1930s, the former RAF parachutist Harry Ward toured the world, from Ireland to India, astonishing crowds with his death-defying "birdman" leaps from rickety biplanes.
  (Rating: 10.00 Votes: 2 Viewed: 1873 Posted: Sun Sep 17 2000)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Adrian Nicholas Proves Da Vinci Chute Works
  More than 500 years after Leonardo da Vinci sketched his design, a Briton has proved that the renaissance genius was indeed the inventor of the first working parachute.
  (Rating: 10.00 Votes: 4 Viewed: 6739 Posted: Sun Jul 09 2000)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Oliver Furrer's Project "Time Zone 2000" Stopped
  Oliver Furrer's project "Time Zone 2000" was reaching for a dream that skydivers has held forever, to stay in the air for as long as possible, see the earth from above and fall slower.
  (Rating: 7.00 Votes: 1 Viewed: 1596 Posted: Tue Jun 20 2000)   Rate It   Bookmark It