Franz Reichelt
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Franz Reichelt, also known as Frantz Reichelt or François Reichelt, was an Austro-Hungarian-born French tailor, inventor and parachuting pioneer, now sometimes referred to as the Flying Tailor.
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Illustration of the first parachute jump by Louis-Sébastien Lenormand from the tower of the Montpellier observatory in 1783.
Reichelt showed off the suit at the foot of the Eiffel Tower shortly before his fatal fall.
The Prefect of Police, Louis Lépine, denied that Reichelt had been authorized to make a "live" jump.
Le Petit Parisien and other newspapers carried pictures of Reichelt's fatal fall on their front pages the next day.Scientists from France 6
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Franz Reichelt, also known as Frantz Reichelt or François Reichelt, was an Austro-Hungarian-born French tailor, inventor and parachuting pioneer, now sometimes referred to as the Flying Tailor. He is remembered for jumping to his death from the Eiffel Tower while testing a wearable parachute of his own design, a device that today might be called a wingsuit. Reichelt had become fixated on developing a suit for aviators that would convert into a parachute and allow them to survive a fall should they be forced to leave their aircraft in mid-air. Initial experiments conducted with dummies dropped from the fifth floor of his apartment building had been successful but he was unable to replicate those early successes with any of his subsequent designs.
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