piisfish 135 #1 October 11, 2012 today is the anniversary of the first patent on parachutes. And no, it was NOT Twardo Jeanne Labrosse, Jacques-André Garnerin's wife-to-be, patented in his name his parachute, 210 years ago http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9-Jacques_Garnerinscissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DanDanInc 5 #2 October 11, 2012 That's wicked cool.Sincerely, Daniel (not as fat as he thinks he is) Adams http://www.skyjump.com http://www.vimeo.com/dandaninc http://www.youtube.com/dandaninc Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
piisfish 135 #3 October 11, 2012 and this drawing is part of the patent scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Niki1 1 #4 October 11, 2012 Quote and this drawing is part of the patent A 23 ft. canvas canopy supported a man and a wicker basket large enough to contain the man. I don't think this would pass the TSO requirement of less than 25 ft. per second. Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossilbe before they were done. Louis D Brandeis Where are we going and why are we in this basket? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkydiveJack 1 #5 October 12, 2012 It's interesting that Figure 1 shows 16 pannels in the top down veiw and that Figure 3 sems to show 26 individual pannels in the side/open view. I guess these aren't precise engineering drawings! ;-) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
oldwomanc6 38 #6 October 13, 2012 Quote It's interesting that Figure 1 shows 16 pannels in the top down veiw and that Figure 3 sems to show 26 individual pannels in the side/open view. I guess these aren't precise engineering drawings! ;-) Back then, those might have been as precise as it got! lisa WSCR 594 FB 1023 CBDB 9 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
