Patent

[howardwhite 5]

OK, here are some excerpts from a patent. Identify the patent holders (one pretty well known) and the year.

HW

[wmw999 2,123]

It's probably cheating to search through Google Patents, huh...

Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[howardwhite 5]

Well, that's where I got it. But maybe i added or subtracted.

HW

[IanHarrop 37]

My guess is Domina Jalbert

Edit to add... no I didn't search patents, just the internet for his first name, I could only remember Jalbert.

"Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

[fastphil 0]

It's not Leonardo Da Vinci, is it...

[howardwhite 5]

Later than Leo, somewhat earlier than Jalbert (surprisingly.)

HW

[skypuppy 1]

Seems to me Faustus Veranzio is always shown with a square parachute.... Jumping a building, too....

If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead.
Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

[wmw999 2,123]

Curtis Hughes & Loy Brydon for a controllable parachute.

1963.

Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[howardwhite 5]

Yup. but was it ever produced? Jumped? The Barish Sailwing was considered the first square to be jumped -- in 1965.

HW

[Guru312 0]

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Yup. but was it ever produced? Jumped? The Barish Sailwing was considered the first square to be jumped -- in 1965.

HW

Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't Steve Snyder get credit for most successful square...meaning, largest market share for a ram-air canopy?

Guru312

I am not DB Cooper