Leonardo da Vinci sketched once in his notebook in 1514. The parachutes were reinvented in the late of 18 century in 1783 but credit for the first invention of the first practical parachute goes to Frenchman Sebastian Lenormand, the man who imposed the word Parachute.
What is the history of Parachutes?
In the early years of our present century, a group of Government and military men gathered to evaluate the possibilities of a new vehicle for use by the army.
When the air age began many of the early designs were not the most reliable aircraft in fact some of them proved themselves to be no aircraft at all.
But man was determined to fly at the beginning of the air age. Keeping this in mind, in the future if aircraft were successful then safety parachutes would have an important role.
When did Parachutes first come into use?
It was also inevitably the beginning of the widespread development of the parachutes, as in late World War I, most American pilots did not wear parachutes. But as air Warfare developed the French and the issue of the German-made regulation among the pilots.
In the year just after World War I one of the parachutes in America remained as a device for barnstorming stuntmen, but by the early 1930 Russia looking ahead to the time when America needed shock troops for its global plans to begin experimenting with the parachute for military use.
This experiment was not confined to human parachutes but included vehicles and weapons.
The vision of the future role of the parachute in military operations was clear.
Experimenting of Parachutes
The experimenting continued to work out the complicated two-stage canopy which would bring their paratroopers down at greater speed, a smaller top slowed the fall for most of the distance than a larger square-shaped canopy open to cushion the final approach to the ground it was interesting and it worked but it never came into widespread use.
The working out of the early method for cargo drop was started in which the parachute was dropped before the cargo. They even tried dropping man vehicles without the benefit of parachutes wonders some attempts were successful it became clear that parachute was the most practical means of air-to-ground delivery.
How Parachutes helped in World War
During World War II the parachute found a great many other uses vast areas of the enemy shipping lanes were seeded with mines from the air with the parachute to slow their descent and prevent detonation for landing shots.
Towards the end of the war, the Germans came up with an unusual Ribbon chute design to act as an air brake for dive bombers and gliders.
In Korea techniques for parachute delivery of vast masses of combat material.
The big nylon umbrellas had brought a great change in the concept of military supply tons of essential combat material could be delivered over distance in terms of land transport.
The importance of parachutes in making possible this high-speed large-scale delivery is virtually impossible to exaggerate.
Seat ejection Parachute technique
With the development of supersonic aircraft, parachutes' escape techniques had to change.
The seat ejection parachute was about to come in to be in initial testing involving men, as well as machine seat ejection, would have had to be swift, but not so Swift that pilot could not bear the acceleration stresses.
Naziz had worked on an ejection seat design and captured German. So the testing, designing, and refining went on in the search for a way to give a pilot and his parachute a protective package as a self-ejecting package that would give him clear a supersonic jet in a hurry and with safety.
The ejection technique came into practice
It was a tough problem but the solution was found and the ejection seat principle was proven in practice.
Still, parachutes had added a margin of safety to the flying of Jet aircraft special breaking chutes are standard equipment on many jets. Giving pilots the ability to land safely in a much shorter way than they could otherwise use.
The regulus Supersonic submarine missile is a good example, a missile is recoverable because it can be guided tour landing escort aircraft and because it uses a rugged nylon canopy to slow its conserving stop once it touches down because it carries on recovery parachute to bring it and its cameras down gently.
Adaptation of parachutes
Pararescue teams need special parachuting skills and they practice them often, the right timing for slipping the harness in a water-resistant comes only with the experience of taking a jump over thick woods to battle a forest fire.
A man needs to know how to land in treetops and come out in one piece. In countless other situations as well where relief could come only from the air, the parachute has brought supplies and comfort to those cut off from help.
Parachuting as sports
Recently a lot of attention has been given to Parachuting as a sport in both military and civilian.
Skydiving is called and clubs have sprung up everywhere, perhaps it isn't likely to replace baseball as the National pastime but few sports fans can claim, the thrill parachuting gives the skydivers.
The parachute has been brought into a whole new field of techniques and given a new type of modern Army.
Airborne soldiers of today must know everything that classic infantrymen had to know and a great deal more about the added training, the added mobility, and the added striking power resulting come from the full development of the parachute's ability to deliver both assault rifle troops and combat supplies.
Conclusion
The parachute has truly come a long way from the early days of the Baran storming Daredevils to its 100 uses in the world of today.
Even if the space age opens up ahead it seems safe to speculate that parachutes are dependable versatile umbrellas of the sky.
