![]() ![]() Finalment, se li donà el permís a principis de 1912, però quan va arribar a la torre el 4 de febrer va deixar clar que ell mateix volia saltar, i no pas fer les proves amb els ninots. Creient que una de les causes dels fracassos era la falta d'una plataforma prou alta, Reichelt va demanar permís per fer l'experiment a la Prefectura de Policia parisenca. Els experiments inicials amb ninots, que tirava des del cinquè pis de l'edifici on vivia, havien estat reeixits, tanmateix, no va poder replicar aquests èxits inicials en cap dels seus dissenys posteriors. Reichelt havia volgut desenvolupar un vestit pels aviadors que es pogués convertir en un paracaigudes i els permetés sobreviure caigudes si havien de sortir de l'aeronau. Actualment sovint anomenat "el Sastre Volador", Reichelt és conegut per haver mort després de saltar de la Torre Eiffel mentre provava un paracaigudes que havia dissenyat ell mateix. Franz Reichelt, també conegut com a Frantz Reichelt o François Reichelt (1879 – 4 de febrer de 1912), fou un sastre, inventor i pioner del paracaigudisme francès nascut a Àustria.We don’t remember their names, or note their sacrifice. All the while we ridicule or forget the countless men who didn’t beat the odds. When a man beats the odds and becomes wealthy, we say he achieved it through privilege instead of risk and toil. Now we post pictures of men doing something dangerous and caption it “this is why women live longer than men”. ![]() There was a time we celebrated this spirit, both for its rewards and its excesses. Every painfully won inch forwards is achieved by this desire in men to test and risk.įor each man who becomes a titan of industry hundreds of thousands risk it all on plans that lead to ruin. We sit in comfort on airplanes circling the globe now because of the drive that also caused this man to die at the base of a building, wearing a parachute of his own design.įor each continent mapped, untold numbers sailed off into the darkness of history and their deaths. For each man who makes a discovery that changes the world, untold thousands fail. Be it an idea, a business, a theory, a relationship. The next day, newspapers were full of illustrated stories about the death of the "reckless inventor", and the jump was shown in newsreels. The parachute failed to deploy and he fell 57 metres (187 ft) to his death. Despite attempts to dissuade him, he jumped from the first platform of the tower wearing his invention. He finally received permission in 1912, but when he arrived at the tower on 4 February he made it clear that he intended to jump personally rather than conduct an experiment with dummies. 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.īelieving that a suitably high test platform would prove his invention's efficacy, Reichelt repeatedly petitioned the Parisian Prefecture of Police for permission to conduct a test from the Eiffel Tower. 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. ![]() VIDEO: Franz Reichelt’s Death Jump off the Eiffel Tower (1912) (trigger warning)įranz Reichelt (1879 – 4 February 1912), also known as Frantz Reichelt or François Reichelt, was an Austrian-born French tailor, inventor and parachuting pioneer, now sometimes referred to as the Flying Tailor, who is remembered for jumping to his death from the Eiffel Tower while testing a wearable parachute of his own design. ![]()
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