{"id":28972,"date":"2012-03-02T17:45:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T21:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28972"},"modified":"2012-03-02T17:45:20","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T21:45:20","slug":"100th-anniversary-of-first-parachute-jump-from-an-airplane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28972","title":{"rendered":"100th Anniversary of first parachute jump from an airplane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We missed it by a day, but COB6 sent us a text message to remind us that yesterday was the 100th Anniversary of the first parachute jump from an airplane at Jefferson Barracks, MO on March 1st 1912. You know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ksdk.com\/rss\/article\/307327\/3\/100th-anniversary-of-parachute-jump-from-an-airplane-\">the dude was Army<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Army Captain Albert Berry, the son of a balloonist, did what was thought to be impossible or crazy back then. He jumped from a &#8220;pusher&#8221; biplane designed Thomas Benoist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The first actual parachute jump, though, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/33036\/FIRST-PARACHUTE-JUMP-WAS-MADE-IN-1797.html\">happened in 1783<\/a>, and by a Frenchman;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;the first successful parachute jump was made in France in 1783 when the French physicist Louis Sebastien Lenormand (1757-1839) made the leap from a tower.About this time France&#8217;s Montgolfier brothers were experimenting with their first balloon flights. In 1797, another Frenchman, Andre Jacques Garnerin, dropped 6,500 feet from a balloon over Monceau Park in Paris in a 23-foot white canvas parachute with a basket attached.<\/p>\n<p>In 1922, Lt. Harold Harris bailed out of a crippled plane near Dayton, Ohio, and became the first member of the Caterpillar Club, those whose lives have been saved by parachute.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, my life was saved by a parachute every time I tested gravity&#8217;s resolve.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ParatroopersOverHolland.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ParatroopersOverHolland.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ParatroopersOverHolland\" width=\"360\" height=\"286\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ParatroopersOverHolland.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ParatroopersOverHolland-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We missed it by a day, but COB6 sent us a text message to remind us &hellip; <a title=\"100th Anniversary of first parachute jump from an airplane\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28972\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">100th Anniversary of first parachute jump from an airplane<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}