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Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton - BAMS

F-35B

Northrop X-47B

ICON A5

Formation flight Sunday. F-86s

STS-127 Endeavour #space [processed image by http://photos.robotpig.net ] |

Dassault Rafale M40

Vulcan XH558

Franz Reichelt (1879 – February 4, 1912) was an Austrian-born French tailor, inventor and parachuting pioneer now sometimes referred to as the Flying Tailor, who is remembered for jumping to his death from the Eiffel Tower while testing a wearable parachute of his own design. 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. Although it was clear that the fall had killed him, he was taken to a nearby hospital where he was officially pronounced dead. The next day, newspapers were full of the story of the reckless inventor and his fatal jump – many included pictures of the fall taken by press photographers who had gathered to witness Reichelt’s experiment – and a film documenting the jump appeared in newsreels. Video

F-15E Strike Eagle

Douglas C-47 Skytrain