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Who needs a parachute?

Posted on November 11, 2009 by Julian Smith

ON A bright day in 1912, an Austrian tailor named Franz Reichelt jumped off the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. This was no suicide attempt. Reichelt was wearing a special overcoat of his own design that was supposed to let … Continue reading →

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