Franz Reichelt, (1879 – February 4, 1912), was an Austrian-born
French tailor, inventor and parachuting pioneer, now sometimes
referred to as the Flying Tailor, who is remembered for his
accidental death by jumping from the Eiffel Tower while testing
a wearable parachute of his own design. Reichelt had become
fixated on developing a suit for aviators that would convert into
a parachute and allow them to survive a fall should they be
forced to leave their aircraft. Initial experiments conducted with
dummies dropped from the fifth floor of his apartment building
had been successful, but he was unable to replicate those early
successes with any of his subsequent designs. (@ Wikipedia)
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