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Franz Reichelt obtained permission to test his parachute suit from the Eiffel Tower in 1912 — on what condition, which he ignored?
Authorization covered a dummy drop from the first platform. Reichelt jumped himself before the Pathé cameras; the suit failed and he fell 57 metres.
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Franz Reichelt, the Tailor Who Jumped from the Eiffel Tower in His Own Parachute Suit on 4 February 1912 Franz Reichelt, an Austrian-born Parisian tailor, designed a wearable parachute suit and obtained permission to test it from the Eiffel Tower — with a dummy. On the morning of 4 February 1912, before Pathé news cameras, he jumped himself. The suit failed and he fell 57 metres to his death.
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