All parachute packers were informed that they would be ordered occasionally to jump from a plane to test their own work. |
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I had a routine system for checking the ejection seat, parachute and seat pan. |
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His papers include work on the stability of a parachute and fluid flow past circular and elliptic cylinders. |
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At its peak altitude, the engineless plane will separate from its booster before gliding to earth under radio control to a parachute landing. |
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You cannot sort of just parachute in without opportunity for open and equal competition as part of the process. |
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Highlights included visiting America in an exchange programme, a parachute jump and qualifying to fly solo. |
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Instead of doublets and Elizabethan ruffs, we should have Gunne Sax frills and parachute pants. |
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But this action put tension on the parachute lanyard, allowing the rotor downwash to partly inflate the chute. |
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Personnel from both countries compared and practiced their skills in a parachute insertion, amphibious operations and live-fire assaults. |
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Reminds me of opening the parachute bag that mum would bring home full of clean pressed washing from the laundry at Hornsey Road Baths. |
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Classes start with fun warm ups, circuit training, hoppers and parachute games. |
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The parachute had retracted in a mere fraction of a second, so quickly that Alan barely saw it withdraw. |
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He looked up, horror in his straining eyes as the fire licked greedily along the edges of his parachute. |
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Great credit is due to parachute rigger Michael Sandorse of the 486th Squadron. |
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In addition to clerical work, they also filled positions as parachute riggers, mechanics, radio operators, mapmakers, and welders. |
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Jumps are made by parachute instructors and riggers from the PTS who volunteer their time after work to entertain. |
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As a result, the parachute riggers are taking on more responsibility since they can now plan part of the flight's path. |
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A competent rigger can easily replace parachute lines sewn directly to the parachute. |
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They also filled nontraditional billets as air traffic controllers, link trainers, mechanics, and parachute riggers. |
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Jack barely wriggled into the parachute and found the ripcord in time to land painfully but not fatally. |
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You don't have to pack a parachute, pull a ripcord, or jump from a airplane. |
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Once safely over the French coastline, he simply pulled his parachute ripcord and floated gently to the ground on a clifftop near Calais. |
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The trainee then pulls his or her ripcord and controls the parachute to the ground under guidance from an instructor on the ground. |
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I remembered Mike's words and pulled the ripcord that opened the parachute. |
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If I went, and I would, I'd want the full suit, with an aqualung and a parachute. |
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If I was going to climb to altitude in a plane with a wing about to come off, I certainly wanted my parachute leg straps fastened! |
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I often see loadmasters shaking their heads when I come on board with a parachute. |
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Mark has reached a top speed of 325 mph before he deploys a parachute at 3,000 ft above the ground. |
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That was prevented by an automatic parachute arrangement which came into instantaneous operation. |
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Over the clothing we wore a Mae West, then the British parachute and, on top of that lot, came the quick-release Sutton harness. |
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But he taught me how to make a parachute with Saran Wrap and how to repair bicycles. |
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When a young airman miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. |
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A puppy dropped by parachute from a hot-air balloon descends safely into the garden of a secret convent. |
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I was about to breathe a sigh of relief when they ballooned out and started to parachute down in the middle of the courtyard. |
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Two computers, about the size of a matchbox, are attached to the side of their parachute to calculate the speed of the descent. |
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It took him six months to persuade his doctor to sign the medical certificate allowing him to do the tandem parachute jump. |
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Add pyjamas, sweater, serge uniform, flying boots, scarf, flying jacket, helmet and goggles, harness and parachute and it becomes a tight fit. |
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The wings are added to represent entry into combat via air, and the bendlets symbolize the unit's parachute drops into combat. |
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The day started with a treasure hunt and this was followed by a parachute game with all the mums and dads invited to participate. |
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We had been instructed to steer by manipulating the shroud lines of the parachute, and I tried that without success. |
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He collapsed into a roll when he hit the ground and shucked off the parachute. |
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It saw active service as a troop transport, glider tug, freighter, ferry aircraft, and ambulance, and was used for dropping parachute troops. |
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Moreover, life-endangering acts, such as parachute jumping, would place the unconsenting fetus in unreasonable danger. |
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I'm blurry as I parachute to a spot near the mansion, but feel better once I hit the ground. |
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This is basically an underwater parachute which fills with water and slows the boat down. |
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Co-ordinated with a small parachute drop, it forced the Romanians to abandon the positions from which they were bombarding the port. |
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After they are dropped, they open up in the air and disperse bomblets by parachute. |
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Still, he left with a 7-figure golden parachute, and only the unitholders were unhappy. |
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Out on the ice, however, as the crew unpacks the parachute, she begins to get anxious. |
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And also, it's good to be reminded that my smalls haven't always resembled a Second World War parachute. |
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Despite a persistence of unplausible actions, such as boat-jacking and the mysterious parachute disappearance, this is a video-game after all. |
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The powered phase is followed by an unpowered glide from Mach 0.9 down to Mach 0.3, when the parachute system deploys. |
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In order to navigate at night, commanders used compasses and parachute flares. |
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The Sam Browne belt worn by the Army officers had been abandoned in 1937 because they could not be worn under a parachute harness. |
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Apparently the parachute type pin had too sharp edges or maybe a little burr. |
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When it's stable, I will fire a drogue parachute, which will also come out of the nose cone, to make the craft stable. |
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They expressed a wish to do a parachute jump from the tower then but were not allowed. |
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I didn't think it was a big deal until I had a hairily late parachute deployment at last December's launch. |
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In case you were wondering, you hook your arms through the straps of another jumper's parachute. |
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We finally make it to our feet and clip our parachute static lines onto the anchor cable. |
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A para rigger carefully arranges the suspension lines of a static line parachute as part of the packing process. |
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Parachute Training Wing conducts classes in parachute free fall, static line, O2 jumps and a hybrid jump called Ram Air Parachute Static Line. |
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The static line deploys your parachute within 5 seconds of leaving the aircraft. |
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Leather is a key material for the season, along with parachute silk, cotton poplin, cotton canvas and shining silk. |
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A parachute centre's plans to extend the number of days it operates fell on stony ground when the application came before the town council. |
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He bailed out, the machine falling away, but his parachute was sucked into a storm cloud. |
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Detectives revealed that the cord on his main parachute had been deliberately severed, as was the strapping on his reserve chute. |
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The capsule is expected to remain in orbit for 14 orbits and 21 hours before re-entry and a parachute landing in inner Mongolia. |
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A parachute is standard equipment as are helmet and goggles, boots, overalls and gloves. |
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The cosmonaut ejected 4,000 meters above the ground and floated to Earth on a parachute. |
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Once I had stuffed myself behind the wheel with my surplice billowing around me like a collapsed parachute, I switched into passive mode. |
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As his head began to clear, he grabbed his parachute and moved away from his ejection seat, leaving the rest of his survival kit behind. |
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Emily sits in a stream, covered by a half-submerged parachute, illuminated by dappled light coming through a tree. |
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In total, they had 10,000 men who could be dropped by parachute and they had a total attack force of 22, 500 men. |
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The air vehicle is not fitted with conventional landing gear but instead achieves an accurate landing using a parachute and airbags. |
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In 1922, Soviet soldiers were dropped successfully by parachute from aircraft. |
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There are also attachments on the vest to enable the dog to be dropped by parachute, or hauled up via a rope. |
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Keahi would fly in low on autopilot, the five would throw out their heavy supplies on parachutes, then jump by parachute themselves. |
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Furthermore, the recovery of the experiment hardware after a nominal soft landing under parachute allows for its re-use in future missions. |
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Searchers used loud parachute flares that light up a vast area to make contact with the woman, who was suffering hypothermia. |
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Squad leaders fired their M203 rounds with modified parachute flares to mark enemy positions. |
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Engagements during hours of darkness can require illumination, such as a star cluster or parachute flare, to illuminate enemy positions. |
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After illuminating both sea and land with parachute flares, the enemy aircraft came in at low level. |
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I didn't have a lot of time to prepare for the parachute landing and, not being a parachutist, this was new to me. |
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Neither his main parachute or reserve chute appear to have deployed properly after he jumped from a Cessna 182 aircraft. |
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The pair fell off the edge, as they tried to take off in a double-harnessed parapente, a large parachute like a hang-glider. |
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She stands stiff, feet together, as the parachute pulls her into the air, making her possibly the first Inuk woman to parasail in the Arctic. |
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Another parachute game was the finale to the day's events and a well-earned ice lolly eaten quietly in the shade was welcomed by all. |
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Thus Bridget descends by parachute into a pigsty full of excrement, struggles hopelessly on skis, and gets drenched by passing London lorries. |
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These include artificial tendons and ligaments, biodegradable fishing lines, parachute cords, and bulletproof vests. |
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They lace their boots with heavy-duty parachute cord and wrap extra cord around their ankles. |
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The Genesis space capsule crash-landed in the Utah desert today, after its parachute failed to open. |
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The point of attaching the parachute bridle to the carabineer is that then you can dangle from the hang glider as you come down under chute. |
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East Lancashire Hospice is appealing for daredevils to take part in a sponsored parachute jump in aid of the charity. |
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On his back were a parachute and 100-pound rucksack crammed with clothes, food, medical gear and other stuff. |
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The Army designed the AGU and the parachute decelerators, while the Air Force created the JPADS mission planner. |
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A ragged decrepit old man blinking in amazement as a parachute descends into the valley, landing gently beside the lake. |
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His parachute training had helped him develop the skills he needed to position himself properly. |
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Grannies have gone skiing, parachute jumping and all sorts of daring things, so why not go-go dancing? |
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Every record executive I know has health insurance, a nice house in the hills and a golden parachute. |
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His decision to help out jobless workers stands in stark contrast to the many chiefs who grab the golden parachute and merely wave good-bye. |
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Until 4 July, few people checked the line between the drogue and the main parachute. |
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For landing, a drogue parachute, installed in the tail of the fuselage, is connected to the spring loaded tail cone ejection plate. |
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The drogue parachute deploys first and then the main parachute is released. |
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Couldn't they airlift food and water and drop it by parachute or helicopter to some dry areas? |
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The Abwehr conducted four parachute drops to re-supply them with equipment, radios and cash. |
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One of the most obvious lessons Stirling learned was that a parachute drop could be a disaster. |
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There was, however, no way of contacting them and arranging for a parachute drop. |
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It must be waterproof, vermin-proof and able to survive a 100-foot drop without a parachute. |
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The adrenaline junkie donned a parachute, laid his hands on a high-powered jet ski and prepared to ride it off Niagara Falls. |
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Linen was also used for fire hoses, parachute webbing and heavy-duty canvas. |
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He made over 40 parachute jumps while serving as a rifle platoon leader, battalion adjutant, and commander of a raider platoon. |
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At once terrifying and thrilling, many would consider a parachute jump to be the experience of a lifetime. |
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Nothing I have done in my 29 years on this planet comes close to a parachute jump. |
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Now, nearly 13 years later, she has decided to do a parachute jump to raise money for the special care baby unit at Great Western Hospital. |
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But as Halvorsen said, the challenge for high-building jumping is to open the parachute successfully during the jump. |
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When bad weather stopped the jump, the parachute was kept in a store at the airfield that was locked overnight but was left open in the day. |
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I transferred to the paratroops in May 1944 and successfully completed six compulsory parachute jumps. |
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In December 1982 he broke his leg following a parachute jump and never completed his training. |
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She has already proved herself to be fearless after performing a parachute jump for the charity last year. |
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However, in spite of her ordeals, Ms Brown has never let it stop her, even taking part in parachute jumps for charity. |
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But, if by any accident the parachute is not expanded as he falls, the rapidity of the fall will not be checked. |
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The phase where the rovers landed safely on the planet called for a parachute, aeroshell and retro-rockets. |
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It therefore will need a new type of aeroshell and a strong parachute to slow it down. |
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Prosthetic limbs are dropped by parachute to a wind blown field hospital for land mine victims. |
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He had jumped out of a light aircraft while unwittingly wearing a sabotaged parachute. |
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Lightly equipped parachute engineer battalions were also formed to build emergency airstrips after an amphibious landing. |
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Then he fired up the jets on his new, smaller and sleeker wingsuit to perform the loopings before landing safely with a parachute. |
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Base jumping involves the sequenced use of a wingsuit and parachute to jump from fixed objects. |
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As the parachute shot out from the top of the spacecraft, the aerobrake was released to fall freely to the surface of Mars. |
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The aircraft is equipped with three-strut landing gear, a tail wheel and a brake parachute. |
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They would fly a few feet over the drop zone and then deploy the cargo using a small drogue parachute. |
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Paragliding is the act of strapping on a parachute and running off the top of a cliff, where upward air currents fill the parachute and allow you to glide. |
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A thousand feet later, he opened his parachute for a landing. |
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I even wound a 10-foot length of parachute cord around my hiking staff. |
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Air filled out the parachute canopy above him and then, swinging on the gentle south-west wind, he landed near St Pancras Church less than two miles away. |
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There are lots of satin and technical fabrics which include silk jersey, duchess satin, silk satin, parachute silk, viscose organza, silk twill, cotton canvas and taffeta. |
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Please urge all ultralight owners with BRS units to re-evaluate the series of attachments that connect the pilot to the airplane, to the parachute, and to both. |
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Daniel Craig, in his finest Bond dinner jacket, called at the Palace and invited her to parachute into the stadium with him. |
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Now, through his company Sky High Images, he plans to promote skydiving as an advertising medium, with the logos of client companies emblazoned on parachute canopies. |
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The other nine were able to safely parachute from the aircraft. |
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But he didn't free himself in time and was late in pulling the ripcord on the parachute which meant he hit the ground very hard and injured his ankles. |
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I would agree that there is such a culture in the parachute regiment. |
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The US military in Afghanistan loaded cargo planes with food, tarpaulins and other emergency aid to drop by parachute over areas of Pakistan, officials said. |
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The mood of VE day will be re-created with a massive free party in the park on Sunday, which will feature Second World War vehicles and a parachute drop, weather permitting. |
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With some help getting into the high cockpit, Bullard settled himself into the bucket seat and began the ritual of strapping on parachute and safety harnesses. |
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Here you see a ghost-white parachute, about 13 feet across, too small to be used for skydiving. |
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The second story, which really picks up steam in the latter half of the book, is the race to land without a parachute. |
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For this campaign Soviet troops used parachute formations on a large scale to occupy the ports of Dairen and Port Arthur to pre-empt an anticipated American landing. |
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She urged everyone to continue to support activities planned, including sponsored London Marathon runs, coast-to-coast bike rides and parachute jumps. |
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He battled huge updrafts and downdrafts to take Solo Spirit up and over a 6700-metre Andean peak in a manoeuvre so risky he opted to wear a parachute. |
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Are you the kind of criminal who steals a plane and then jumps without a parachute from high over a body of water? |
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They bound our hands and feet with parachute cord and duct tape. |
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Gilmore wore a parachute, and a cable from the trapdoor ran back to the control panel so that in an emergency both Turner and his pet could bail out. |
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I did parapente for a second time, going up in a parachute over the cliff with the wind blowing me up, giving me a great bird's eye view of the city. |
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At first he'd wondered if the clean-cut fly boys who risked their lives making low altitude parachute drops behind the iron curtain knew what their cargo was. |
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He liked the sweet golden parachute that came with his retirement. |
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If the flight was uneventful, his first parachute jump in action was not. |
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Lining up alongside his sporting hero, two-time Olympic gold medallist Michael Diamond, the parachute rigger had a bad first two days, scoring below his usual score. |
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The parachute assault section usually includes two surgeons, four operating room nurses, one nurse anesthetist, two practical nurses, and three operating room technicians. |
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Nicki, who has previously completed a parachute jump in aid of the hospital, lost her first son to the same disease when he was just six days old. |
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It was determined later that the parachute failure had occurred because the drag chute had not been installed in accordance with local technical orders. |
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He deployed the parachute straight away, jolting him out of free fall. |
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If it weren't for the parachute riggers' dedication to making sure aircrew have all their required equipment, in good condition, we would have lost a lot more pilots. |
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A murder inquiry was launched after police discovered that the cord on his main parachute and the strapping on his reserve chute had been expertly and deliberately severed. |
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The time at which you activate your parachute system plays an important part in the amount of time you have to stop if the parachute fails to deploy properly. |
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The crew held on to the rigging lines of his parachute as he crawled along the wing towards the fire, making holes in the wing with his hands and feet. |
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Then the ripcord was pulled, the parachute opened and he landed safely. |
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The prototype is fitted with an array of computer sensors, web cameras, manoeuvreable surfaces and a new battery pack design, as well as a tiny parachute. |
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If you were lucky you landed in the drop zone and made a good rolling fall, then quick-released your parachute before it could drag you and break your neck. |
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Free balloons carrying meteorographs came into use in the 1890s. After a predetermined time, the meteograph instrument package would be released and descend on a parachute. |
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If the deployment is forced with a static line the deployment bag design makes almost no difference because it's the dummy weight which pulls the parachute put of the pod. |
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Moreover, this sturdy frame comes with an emergency parachute, four removable and scalable arms, two batteries as well as three easily interfaceable accessories. |
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The sodden rocket would not ignite and his soggy parachute failed to open. |
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He was dropped by parachute at Arnhem and advanced into Germany. |
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She is doing a sponsored parachute jump in her granddaughter's memory. |
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If you're about to launch an IT initiative big enough to warrant its own name, you should probably make sure you have a really good golden parachute. |
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A parachute deployed, and then the rover and rocket stage dropped away from the parachute and began a powered descent toward the surface. |
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The aircraft is designed to use a drag parachute as a brake, but Mr Prothero didn't have time to deploy it. |
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What possible reason would anyone have for sabotaging your parachute, tovarich? |
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As planned, within seconds of touching down, the space craft released a 40-foot-wide drag parachute to help slow it down. |
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The jet dragster has been clocked at 232.24 miles per hour.... The car is stopped by a drag parachute. |
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A backup method for the spin recovery parachute system is jettisonable ballast. |
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Other units ceased using parachute flares and opted for explosive target markers. |
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Also in August, the second unit filmed in Paris, including scenes involving a parachute jump from the Eiffel Tower. |
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For the parachute jump, Bond and the Queen were played respectively by BASE jumpers and stuntmen Mark Sutton and Gary Connery. |
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Balloons commonly had a crew of two, equipped with parachutes, so that if there was an enemy air attack the crew could parachute to safety. |
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It fought its way back to Imphal with aid from Scoones's reserve division, supplied by parachute drops. |
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On 1 May, a Gurkha parachute battalion was dropped on Elephant Point, and cleared Japanese rearguards from the mouth of the Yangon River. |
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Jason Neil Pringle, was killed during operations after his parachute failed to deploy. |
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Three of the crew died, while the radio operator Fritz Ambrosius was badly burned but managed to parachute down. |
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Dropping high explosive bombs, incendiary bombs and parachute mines, the Riverside area was the first to be bombed. |
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In Grangetown, the Hollyman Brothers bakery was hit by a parachute mine and 32 people who were using the basement as a shelter were killed. |
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In the south, the famed Folgore parachute division fought to the last round of ammunition. |
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The Normandy invasion began with overnight parachute and glider landings, massive air attacks and naval bombardments. |
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Subsequent development of the parachute focussed on making it more compact. |
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The 1998 expedition was dropped by parachute and completed the track to the North Pole. |
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Gleb Kotelnikov invented the knapsack parachute, while Evgeniy Chertovsky introduced the pressure suit. |
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His parachute was shot half away, and if he'd jumped he would have fallen like a plummet. |
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Rooting about in her parachute bag she hauled out the neck of a Jack Daniel's bottle stuffed with what smelt like some high-grade whacky tabaccy. |
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The vehicle resembling a flying saucer in shape is equipped with jet engines, an inflatable airbrake and a parachute. |
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He has flown in a powered parachute, an engineless gyroplane and helicopters of various sorts. |
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There were also parachute games for the children and traditional family games such as musical chairs as well as a range of refreshments. |
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He's wearing his usual beret, tie-dyed T-shirt and parachute pants. |
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A parachute is an important aerodynamic decelerator and is widely used in aviation, aerospace, weaponry, and other areas. |
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The parachute jump was performed by stuntman and base jumper Gary Connery and Mark Sutton, a former officer in the Royal Gurkha Rifles. |
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Preliminary analysis of imagery and other data received during the test indicates the Supersonic Ringsail parachute deployed. |
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When making a static line jump, tile student's ripcord is pulled by a line attached to the parachute upon exiting the aircraft. |
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Army in the latter part of WWII, was trained as a parachute demolitionist and saw duty in the Philippines and Japan. |
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A paratrooper makes about 4-5 parachute jumps a year from different heights up to 3500 meters. |
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Both, however land under parachute although a belly landing option is available on request. |
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And should Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa ultimately gain control of the district and fire him, Brewer is guaranteed a golden parachute. |
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After jumping, it took him 3 minutes, 48 seconds of free fall before he opened his parachute and floated to the ground. |
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Two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography revealed dilated coronary sinus and parachute mitral valve. |
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Old Number 30, a C-47 Skytrain dropping candy by parachute for Boy Scout Patriotic Camporee. |
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The parachute on the aircraft's ejector seat failed to deploy and the airman died later in hospital. |
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Thirteen skydivers in New Zealand managed to parachute to safety after the skydiving aircraft encountered engine trouble. |
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This modification permits parachute drops that have military and fire smokejumper applications in Dash 8, Series 300 aircraft. |
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A thinner Martian atmosphere means designing a parachute system that will operate at such a low pressure or allowing more weight for retrorockets to slow the capsule. |
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Due to its lightweight, Swinglet CAM can be carried, flied and caught while landing by mere hands without the need of using parachute or landing net. |
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The weekend includes a church service on the drop zone immediately after the parachute jump which will be attended by thousands of local people and a large number of veterans. |
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To be properly equipped, participants should also wear an emergency parachute and carry a map and variometer which charts rates of ascent and descent as well as height. |
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Released from its B-52 mother ship at an altitude of about 37,500 feet, the X-38 glided for about six minutes and then deployed a mammoth parafoil, a steerable parachute. |
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A group of British WW2 veterans will today stage a parachute jump over Holland to mark the 60th anniversary of the biggest airborne operation in history. |
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It included British parachute units attacking German artillery batteries on the headlands on either side of the Canadians making a frontal assault from the sea. |
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Unlike previous occasions on which this had happened, the Allied forces stood firm against the attack and supplies were dropped to them by parachute. |
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There is less likely to be a strong incentive to parachute them into constituencies in which they are strangers and thus less than ideal representatives. |
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Hendrix later spoke of his dislike of the army and falsely stated that he had received a medical discharge after breaking his ankle during his 26th parachute jump. |
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A retarded bomb has a small parachute or air brake that opens to reduce the speed of the bomb to produce a safe horizontal separation between the two. |
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According to Cnet, former Googler Mayer had hired De Castro for Yahoo offering a fat contract, which was touted as the biggest golden parachute packages ever. |
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Record City bonuses, massive boardroom pay rises 10 times that on the shop floor, golden parachute pensions for the bosses, lead balloons for the workers. |
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Early on, a dancer gathers parachute silk and stuffs the entire mass into a pocket, while other dancers locomote by pushing and pulling as they touch each other. |
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In this column, Michael Reagan mentions the fact that paratrooper John Steele had his parachute hooked up to the spire of the Sainte-Mere-Eglise church. |
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A South Korean paraglider plunged to his death at a Nepalese tourist resort after his emergency parachute failed to open, local officials said Sunday. |
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