Parachute Jumper is a 1933 American pre-Code black-and-white comedy drama film directed by Alfred E. Green. Based on a story by Rian James titled "Some...
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BASE jumping (redirect from Base jumper)
altitudes, and BASE jumpers only carry one parachute. BASE jumping is significantly more hazardous than other forms of parachuting and is widely considered...
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or more skydivers under fully inflated parachutes. Canopy collisions can cause the jumpers' inflated parachutes to entangle with each other, often resulting...
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Parachutist Badge (United States) (redirect from Parachute Wings)
jumps as a: Static-Line Parachute Jumper, Military Free-Fall Parachute Jumper, and High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) Parachute Jumper (used for premeditated...
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Look up jumper or jumpers in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Jumper or Jumpers may refer to: Jumper (sweater), a long-sleeve article of clothing; also...
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favorable proportion to the weight of the jumper. A square wooden frame, which alters the shape of the parachute from conical to pyramidal, held open Leonardo's...
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HAHO exercise, the jumper will jump from the aircraft and deploy the parachute immediately after exiting the aircraft. The jumper will use a compass or...
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Piantanida (August 15, 1932 – August 29, 1966) was an American amateur parachute jumper who reached 123,500 feet (37,600 meters; 23.39 miles) with his Strato...
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against Villarreal CF B in a friendly. The match ball was delivered by a parachute jumper and the first kick was taken by the grandson of Ferenc Puskás. The...
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Static-line parachute jumper Military free-fall parachute jumper High altitude/low opening (HALO) parachute jumper (used for premeditated personnel parachute operations)...
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Hunters (1933) for Charles Vidor, Man of Action (1933) with McCoy, Parachute Jumper (1933), Goldie Gets Along (1933), Girl Missing (1933), Rustlers' Roundup...
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MC1-1-series parachutes. Some of the MC1-1s suffered catastrophic damage to their canopies such as blown section or gore and damaged suspension lines. Jumpers encountering...
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Dawn (1932) for William Dieterle. Fairbanks did another with Green, Parachute Jumper (1933), which gave an early co-starring role to Bette Davis. Fairbanks...
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during the film's final scenes. Footage from the Bette Davis films Parachute Jumper and Ex-Lady (both 1933) and the Joan Crawford film Sadie McKee (1934)...
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Smokejumper (redirect from Smoke jumper)
from JBPM Air Wing. Smoke Jumpers Unit (Malay: Unit Payung Terjun Bomba) is an elite unit of JBPM and trained in parachute insertion (static line and...
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otherwise cause severe injury or even death. While landing under a parachute canopy, the jumper's feet strike the ground first and, immediately, they let their...
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with Schwartz himself playing the leader. The Morgue, suicide jumper, parachute jumper, snake cult, war and Holocaust footage, and some of the vehicular...
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List of fatalities due to wingsuit flying (category Parachuting deaths)
jump": Pregnant base jumper in parachute death". The Mirror. Retrieved 4 May 2024. "Pregnant base jumper is killed after parachute fails to open". The...
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dropped from heights with the benefit of parachutes. Early on, animals were used as test subjects for parachutes and as entertainment. Following the development...
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Jump boot (category Military parachuting)
the defining characteristics can be found in the US M1942 "Boots, Parachute Jumper" (as popularized by the Corcoran Boot Company during World War II)...
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Katharina Paulus (category History of parachuting)
was a German exhibition parachute jumper and the inventor of the first collapsible parachute. At the time, 1910, the parachute was named "rescue apparatus...
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Class Tom Johnson, a parachute jumper with the U.S. Army Golden Knights, fell over 10,000 feet to his death when both of his parachutes (main and reserve)...
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Banzai skydiving (category Parachuting)
skydiver throws their parachute out the airplane door, waits, and then jumps after it. To be successful, the skydiver must catch the parachute, secure it, and...
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either handed a parachute by a fellow jumper while in freefall or maneuvered to a container carrying a parachute, with first successes dating back to 1965...
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Eagle from about 1928 to 1935. He later was a foreign correspondent, parachute jumper, stunt man, airmail pilot, Air Force lieutenant, vaudeville actor,...
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Leon Waycoff) Silver Dollar (1932) as Yates' Secretary (uncredited) Parachute Jumper (1933) as Pilot with Alabama (uncredited) Forgotten (1933) as Louie...
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normal freefall.[original research?] Parachute jumper and stuntman Luke Aikins successfully jumped without a parachute from about 7,600 metres (25,000 ft)...
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between 3,500 feet and 35,000 feet. The parachute, which replaces the current MC-4 parachute, supports a total jumper weight of 450 pounds. It also provides...
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"Voroshilov horse rider" (Russian: Ворошиловский всадник) and "Distinguished Parachute Jumper". OSOAVIAKhIM supported a number of professional research and development...
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Ladies They Talk About (1933) 42nd Street (1933) Hard to Handle (1933) Parachute Jumper (1933) Employees' Entrance (1933) The King's Vacation (1933) Lawyer...
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