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Meet Franz Reichelt 'the Flying Tailor' Who Jumped To His Death by duketunde: 11:09pm On Sep 28, 2015
undecidedMeet embarassed crazy tailor, inventor and parachuting pioneer, who jumped to his death from the Eiffel Tower while testing one of his designed wearable parachute.

Born Franz Reichelt in present day Austria in 1879 and moved to Paris in 1898. He obtained French nationality in 1908, adopting the first name Francois ( The French equivalent of the Germanic "Franz"wink.

Franz also referred to as the Flying Tailor, started the development of suit for aviators that would convert into a parachute and allow them to survive a fall should they be forced to leave their aircraft. His initial experiments were successful, though he experimented with dummies which he dropped from the fifth floor of his apartment building, but a bit of failure with his subsequent designs.


Mr. Francois Reichelt, believed his failures was as a result of no suitable high test platform, So he petitioned the Parisan Prefecture of Police for permission to conduct a test from the Eiffel Tower. He was finally granted permission in early 1912.
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