Sau khi th thành công mt tòa nhà 5 tng, Franz Reichelt np n. Vi công vic chính là mt th may, ông ã dành thi gian rnh ca mình thit k mt b bay kiêm nhy dù dành cho các phi công. He paused there for about forty seconds as if he was gathering his courage. Franz Reichelt (1879 -1912)) là mt nhà phát minh ngi Áo sng Pháp. “ Everyone thought he would kill himself.” Reichelt’s friends and the security guard in the Eiffel Tower tried to convince him not to jump, saying it was too cold and windy, but Reichelt was determined: “I intend to prove the worth of my invention,” he announced.įrom the railing, Franz glanced down.

“Among the spectators… only he seemed happy,” the French paper Le Matin wrote the following day.

Progetta così una tuta-paracadute, che doveva assicurare una delicata discesa al suolo. Il suo lavoro di sarto incontra presto la passione per l’aviazione, settore che all’epoca era in piena sperimentazione. The news of the first BASE jump in history (although that name had not been invented yet) generated great expectations, and the audience on the floor was numerous.īut to the abject horror of his friends (and the police of Paris), he hadn’t brought any dummies with him, and he was wearing the Eiffel Tower wingsuit himself. Franz Reichelt arriva a Parigi nel 1898 dalla capitale austriaca. Our superhero climbed up to the first floor of the Eiffel Tower for his big day. He never said he would be testing himself, so after a year of lobbying, the police finally agreed.Ĥth February 1912 8 am. He soon became convinced he should try the leap from the Eiffel Tower, the tallest building in Paris at the time, from which his parachute suit could deliver him safely to the ground.ĭetermined, Franz Reichelt began lobbying the Parisian police to let him test his invention from the Eiffel Tower. Reichelt concluded that he just needed the right height from which to jump to succeed. On one occasion, Reichelt even tested out one of his parachutes himself and broke his leg.īut Reichelt was convinced that he could get his invention to work! In those failed tests from home, the suit did not have time to make contact with the air, but the results would be wonderful if he had fifty or one hundred meters instead of twenty-five. ALL of Them.ĭespite his enthusiasm, Reichelt’s early prototypes largely failed, and his dummies dropped like a stone to the ground. Interesting, if my calculations are correct that's a glide ratio of about 4:1.All of These Jump-tests Ended in Failure. Posted: Fri 15:54 UTC Post subject: RE: first wingsuits? Hey Colin, what about our local hero the 12th-century monk Eilmer of Malmesbury? The Danes missed him in their history of wingsuiting. Posted: Fri 14:44 UTC Post subject: RE: first wingsuits? Not sure if you could call him a pioneer, mad or eccentric might be more apt.

The wiki article has a youtube clip of him doing it - it ends badly with some people carrying his body away and measuring the hole he made. Posted: Fri 14:00 UTC Post subject: RE: first wingsuits?įlipping heck I just clicked on Bill's link and did a bit of digging on Franz Reichelt who jumped from the Eiffel Tower with what can loosely(!) be described as an early wing suit design in 1912. I think this site gives more information on others doing this

Posted: Fri 13:28 UTC Post subject: Other wingsuit pioneers It seems pioneers are prosecuted in any discipline since Galileo! Shame there were no witnesses of the stunt. I am not sure about the rigid wings though. The leg part is identical to a wingsuit of today`s designs. Posted: Fri 13:09 UTC Post subject: RE: first wingsuits?

Franz reichelt witness