Parachute
The earliest known parachute design is that of Leonardo da Vinci, who in 1485 devised what he called a "tent roof." It had rigid frame at the base on the assumption it wouldn't stay open oth...
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A judge threw out the case Wednesday against a former television host who was arrested last year while trying to parachute from the Empire State Building's 86th-floor observation deck.State Supreme...
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Falling from the sky doesn't feel like it does in a dream. At 11,500 feet, it's more tactile, more unnerving, fast. In less than 13 seconds you hit terminal velocity, about 120 mph, the whoosh...
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Gary Loveman, the chief executive of casino giant Harrah's Entertainment Inc., will receive about $94 million in stock options and other rights if the world's largest casino buyout deal is consumma...
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Wellington (dpa) - A British skydiver who miraculously survived
after slamming into the ground at about 130 kilometres an hour when
his parachute failed to open over New Zea...
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Tel Aviv (dpa) - Israel is debating a wide range of ideas to get
larger amounts of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, including
using its air force to parachute food into...
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It's almost that time of year again, time to head for the mountains of West Virginia for the fall foliage and for watching people parachute into the New River in the annual celebration called Bridg...
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Taipei (dpa) - The world's tallest building the Taipei 101 is to
end its contract with a security firm after an Austrian man got past
four security guards to parachute off t...
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Taipei (dpa) - The world's tallest building, the Taipei 101, said
Sunday that it would penalize a security firm after an Austrian man
got past four security guards to parach...
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Authorities have opened a murder investigation into the death of a skydiver, saying they believe someone tampered with her parachute in an apparent fight over a lover.Els Van Doren, 37, fell 13,000...
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Parachute
Empire State parachuter charge dropped
