Pretty close to being the first

[ifell 0]

Did a search for this video but there was no way I was going to go through more then 10 pages of threads so if you have seen it... good for you if not not, enjoy!!!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZolZLJR8yRQ


These guys were pretty much the first ones to get into the sport, hat's off!

[darkwing 5]

Just a warning. Great historical stuff, but the video includes actual bounces.

The base jump at about 2 minutes looked like it hurt.

-- Jeff
My Skydiving History

[Taylor610 0]

The BASE jump at about 2 minutes looked like it hurt.


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Hey Dr. W. was that you????

Good to see you on line!

[zoobrothertom 5]

At 4:50 there is a very low pull with a sub 10 second parachute ride. Watch him open and then count until his chute deflates.

Also, the pilot chute and sleeve/bag seperate at line stretch.

There's also a 3 parachute ride by one guy in there. Probably not the first, but it's the earliest film I've seen of a cutaway(s).

It's now in my collection.

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[tetra316 0]

So why's the video 'no longer available?'

[ifell 0]

Must be on your end cause still works fine for me

[ripcord4 0]

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At 4:50 there is a very low pull with a sub 10 second parachute ride. Watch him open and then count until his chute deflates.

Also, the pilot chute and sleeve/bag seperate at line stretch.

There's also a 3 parachute ride by one guy in there. Probably not the first, but it's the earliest film I've seen of a cutaway(s).

It's now in my collection.

Sleeves were not routinely attached to the canopies until the very late '50's. Until then they would just fly off at opening. The US team coaches of that era got tired of retrieving them and just started tying them to the apex.

[zoobrothertom 5]

Sleeves were not routinely attached to the canopies until the very late '50's. Until then they would just fly off at opening. The US team coaches of that era got tired of retrieving them and just started tying them to the apex.

[howardwhite 6]

Lew Sanborn and Jacques-André Istel hold the U.S.patent on the attached sleeve (see first page of patent.)
Their claim notes:
"The most important disadvantage of the prior art sleeve was its separability from the parachute. After the canopy inflated, the sleeve was carried away from the jumper by the pilot parachute. In sport jumping, this is undesirable because of the difficulty in locating the sleeve after the jump and the expense incurred in replacing lost sleeves. For military purposes, the separability of sleeve and parachute is an even more serious problem. A lost sleeve can inform the enemy that a parachutist has been landed in their territory."
The patent was filed in 1957, one of the early "products" of their then-new company, Parachutes, Inc.
HW