A parachute enables a person to execute a controlled fall from a tremendous height and to do so in relative safety. The parachute does this by creating drag and thereby slowing the person's descent. The word parachute derives from the French words para, m ...
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Skydiving schools could be for you if you wonder about the blue sky, the rush, and the 50-second/10,000-foot drop that come after you jump out of the airplane with a parachute on your back. Do you remember the cliff scene in that 1970s western Butch Ca ...
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