NSM Taxonomy

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Sorts Categories & Types

-Date Chronology
-Specific Event or Record
-Parachuting Era (time periods marked by distinctive change, progress, paradigm shift, characteristic, attitude, etc.

Parachuting's ERAS:

- B.A.S.E. Jumping, Since 100 BCE
- Aerostats (Balloons) + parachute jumps, Since 1797
- Fear of Free Fall, Absolute conviction that high falls always fatal, 100s of years old; worldwide into 1930s; exists today!
- Pre Freefall, any/all parachuting before 1919
- Freefall Parachuting, only Since 1919
- Barnstormers, 1920-1936;
- knowledge & tribal memory lost: Controlled Freefall technique known by 6; shared by none. ~1931
- Controlled Freefall techniques relearned (taught w/ syllabus @ 25 schools), de facto world Std. 1946
- Parachuting Pioneers, 1936-1960
- Sport of the Space age, Since 1960+
- RW Since 1965, (Recognized / Accepted by USPA and FAI-CIP since 1972)
- Sequential RW Formation Skydiving fire storms -since Fall 1973
- Ram Air Canopies? (Became widespread?) (Accuracy Mandatory __? when?
- Freefly, Since 1994
- Death Landings under full canopy tops annual frap charts; - - ? Since? when?
- Wind Tunnel mandatory for FS Wins, Since when? 1992?

Madden T. "Pat" Works: Association for Documentary Editing (ADE), NSM, AIAA