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| [00:04.88]Then your teacher shouts:"Go !" [00:08.12]You let go of the wing support and fall away from the plane. [00:13.40]You throw your head back, arms out, legs apart, as you learned. [00:19.51]You fall face forward toward the Earth below. [00:23.35]The sound of the engine and the scream of the wind disappear immediately. [00:29.44]There is only silence. You feel you are moving ... but not falling. [00:36.21]Quickly, a line tied to the plane pulls the parachute from its pack. [00:42.84]The lines of the parachute and the stiff straps of the parachute harness gently pull on your shoulders and legs. [00:51.15]You look up. [00:52.90]The big, colorful parachute is now fully open above you. [00:57.86]You look at it carefully to make sure it is not damaged. [01:02.54]Reaching over your head, you hold the left and right steering lines. [01:08.26]You pull the left one and begin a slow, smooth turn to the left. [01:14.40]You still have no feeling of falling. [01:18.29]You seem to hang in the air. [01:20.90]There is no longer any feeling of fear. [01:24.11]Yet your heart is racing with excitement. [01:27.77]You look around. You can see for many kilometers. [01:32.29]You look down between your feet. [01:34.98]You can see people, cars and buildings. They look very small. [01:41.62]For a few moments, you enjoy the view and the silence of your first parachute jump. [01:48.56]Too soon, it seems, it is time to prepare for landing. [01:53.76]You watch the landing area and move toward it by pulling on the left or right steering lines. [02:01.36]You aim for the soft sand in the center of the landing place. [02:07.01]Suddenly, the ground is moving quickly toward you. [02:11.55]You bring your feet together and bend your legs at the knee. [02:16.10]You reach high into the straps above your head. You keep your eyes straight ahead. [02:23.20]You hit the ground, gently, it seems. [02:26.83]And, as you learned, you roll on your side to the left and come back up onto your feet. [02:34.62]You gather up your parachute, being careful not to cross the many lines. [02:41.20]Your first sport parachute jump has been safe, successful and great fun. [02:48.65]The idea of the parachute is almost as old as man's dreams of flight. [02:55.57]The first known parachute designs were drawn by Italian artist and inventor Leonardo Da Vinci as early as 1495. [03:05.97]However, there is no evidence that Da Vinci ever built a parachute. [03:11.01]About 200 years ago, [03:14.38]Louis-Sebastian Lenormand of France invented a kind of parachute to save people at the top of tall burning buildings. [03:24.85]Historians say he jumped safely from a building in Montpellier, France, using his small device. [03:33.50]The first man to use a real parachute was Andre-Jacques Garnerin. [03:40.26]In 1797, he parachuted from a balloon 600 meters above the city of Paris. [03:48.26]There were more and more parachute designs after the invention of the airplane. [03:55.23]Early planes often crashed. [03:58.71]Fliers needed a safey device that would let them escape from a falling plane: [04:04.92]Parachutes saved many of their lives. [04:08.56]Parachutes became so dependable that military leaders believed they could be used to get soldiers to a battlefield quickly. [04:18.61]American General Billy Mitchell tested the idea in 1928. [04:25.30]Six soldiers jumped by parachute from an airplane. [04:30.45]When they landed, they set up a machine gun. [04:34.10]The test was a complete success. [04:37.42]And the parachute became a useful military tool. [04:42.20]In the past thirty years,parachuting has become an exciting sport. [04:48.57]It became popular when young men who learned to parachute in the military [04:54.66]wanted to continue jumping when they returned to civilian life. [04:59.91]Today, parachuting is enjoyed by men and women, young and old. [05:06.99]There are many kinds of sport parachuting. One of the most interesting is skydiving. [05:15.38]Jumpers leave the airplane as it flies more than 3,000 meters above the ground. [05:22.27]They fall for about one minute before opening their parachute. [05:27.13]They use their bodies, [05:29.20]and the air that rushes past them, to control their flight while falling. [05:34.47]They can speed up or slow down. [05:37.61]They can turn left or right. [05:40.35]They can turn over completely. [05:42.96]People who like to skydive say they can do anything an airplane can do, [05:50.64]except go upi Those who jump say skydiving is as close as man will ever come to free flight ... like that of birds. [06:03.02]Today's parachutes are very different from the device [06:07.41]Leonardo Da Vinci designed 500 years ago. [06:11.41]They come in many different shapes and colors. [06:15.61]One of the most popular is shaped more like a rectangle [06:20.63]than the traditional circle of old parachutes. [06:23.63]This one works much like a jet airplane. [06:28.05]It forces the air that passes through it to the back. [06:32.91]Large openings in the back can be opened or closed to steer it. [06:38.99]Some of the most modern kinds of parachutes give jumpers much more control over where they float. [06:47.77]Jumpers can fall gently down |
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