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- Parachute | Aeronautical Safety Device | Britannicaparachute, device that slows the vertical descent of a body falling through the atmosphere or the velocity of a body moving horizontally. The parachute increases the body’s surface area, and this increased air resistance slows the body in motion.
- How parachutes work | The science of air resistanceParachutes are actually three chutes in one, packed into a single backpack called the container. There's a main parachute, a reserve parachute (in case the main one fails), and a tiny little chute at the bottom of the container, called the pilot chute, that helps the main chute to open.
- History of the Parachute (Inventors and Innovations) - ThoughtCoIn 1887, Captain Thomas Baldwin invented the first parachute harness. In 1890, Paul Letteman and Kathchen Paulus invented the method of folding or packing the parachute in a knapsack to be worn on a person's back before its release. Kathchen Paulus was also behind the invention of the intentional breakaway, which is when one small parachute ...
- parachute - Students | Britannica Kids | Homework HelpIntroduction. © Thomas Barrat/Shutterstock.com. One basic safety device of an aviator is the parachute. It is as important to the aviator as a life preserver is to a seaman. The word parachute comes from the French words para and chute. Used together, they mean “to shield a fall.”
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