Not if he is a wise man, and has a patent Nelson self-acting parachute fastened to him all the time!
We see throughout a beautiful adaptation of every part for fitting the little parachute to be carried long distances by the wind and finally to catch on some suitable place in which to sprout.
But the boys and Mr. Swift also saw something else, and this was that the balloon was on fire on the same side where the parachute was suspended.
It was now merely a mushroom-shaped piece of burning and smoking canvas, yet it was supporting the man almost as a parachute would have done.
They could see the man making frantic efforts to reach his parachute from time to time.
The twisting of the bag had brought into view the parachute or big, umbrella-shaped bag, which would have enabled the man to safely drop to the surface of the lake.
The flares prepared by our Government for the war consist of a sheet iron cylinder, four feet long and six inches thick, containing a stick of magnesium attached to a tightly rolled silk parachute twenty feet in diameter when expanded.
If it did so, the parachute would operate and perhaps land Robin in safety.
He had seen the reference to the parachuteon the loading chart, and he now remembered lettering indicating parachute on the body of the rocket just above the little entryway to the topmost cargo compartment.
The parachute was open, but the air was not thick enough to do more than slow it down too gradually for it to be saved.
Better check the parachute question, too, while I'm at it.
It was the orange parachute designed to land the instrument nose and the test animals safely in the New Mexico desert.
He shredded a number of the stalks, and then staked them out in the ground to make a small fenced pen, tying the whole together with one of the long cords hanging from the parachute nose.
A phrase or two, when they were walking together through the jungle, after the parachute descent, had shown Stuart that the Englishman was especially well acquainted with the flora and fauna of Jamaica.
This lasted but a minute or two, however, when theparachute itself, torn, and caught in the branches, came to anchor.
But some bits of wreckage of his plane had many unsinkable parts about it--the parachute ball for instance.
This was attached to a parachute which, if the emergency arose, could be dropped.
The crowd want somebody who will make a parachute jump, and all that.
Well, we won't get paid for a parachute jump," said the balloon manager.
I'll make theparachute jump if you'll give me a few instructions.
When the balloon was scarcely two hundred feet in the air Porler got out his parachute and leaped overboard.
He knew he was falling, jerking down as the parachute ripped on the boughs.
The non-parachute illuminating shell is designed to give an intense light for a brief interval and is especially applicable to defense against air raids.
A parachute is attached to the cardboard container in which the illuminating mixture is packed and the whole is stowed away in the steel shell.
Furthermore, a velocity of perhaps 1000 feet per second still obtains when the star-shell with itsparachute is ejected at the desired point in the air.
The star-shell has a large parachute of strong material folded in the rear of the casing and the cardboard tube containing the illuminating mixture is attached to it.
An express swooped through the station as he stood on the platform and made a parachute of his overcoat.
I felt like a man in a parachute dropping from twenty-two thousand feet in the dark when I found that you had left me.
It fell erratically for nearly a hundred yards before the parachute became fully distended; then, tilting nose downwards, it continued descending in a series of spirals, its rate being greatly retarded.
The parachute safety band was released, and the craft dropped.
Then suppose I explain that you borrowed the idea of a parachutefrom us?
As they stopped in front of the next house a white parachute flew from the cockpit of the plane and the aircraft, its mission accomplished, veered off to the south toward its hangar.
Continue this until the pilot throws a white parachute over.
The poor fellow whose parachute had not opened was formerly a well-known and popular London actor, Mr. Basil Hallam.
Several hundred feet below the balloon his parachute opened and he came slowly sailing down, some four or five minutes later, fortunately landing in our lines.
I hitched the parachuteon to my leg, got on the edge of the basket, and then--well, I all but funked it.
I stopped and looked round me anxiously, but not a living thing besides had been disturbed, and presently I was stowing the parachute away in a bed of high rank grass and docken just under the wall.
Two especially I had to steel my thoughts against continually--a descent with a parachute that declined to open, whether on to German or any other soil, or else a splash and then a brief struggle in the cold North Sea.
And then as I was walking back thinking these none too cheery thoughts, something put the parachute into my head.
I hunted up that wall and down that wall, but never a sign of the parachute was there.
And if I unearthed the parachute the whole island would know in a couple of hours and the people I was after would also be convinced.
They've found out my German accent was a fake, they've discovered the parachute and know I neither landed from a British cruiser nor a German submarine, and now they know that I lied about that coat.
A drop" meant jumping into space and trusting one's parachute to do its business properly.
The parachute must be hidden, so far as that countryside was capable of hiding anything.
We are falling pretty rapidly," said he, "and personally I'd sooner take my chance in a parachute than stick in this basket till we bump.
He understood exactly what to do--as far as we could tell him: for the parachute is still almost in its infancy.
I saw him for a second falling like a stone, and then theparachute seemed to open out all right.
For when a man has passed unscathed through parachute descents and little things like that, only to lose badly on points to a piece of peel, his sense of humour gets a jog in a crucial place.
Parachute still making running," says John, standing erect in his stirrups, his honest face beaming with excitement.
You are going to take the broadleaf down in your boat, close enough so that you can parachute it down to where it has to go.
Upon both sides the men had been already provided with 'parachute costumes,' which would enable them to float in the air for a while in case of disaster to their vessel, and aid them in making a safe descent to the ground.
This 'trail' consisted of the members of the crews who had jumped or been thrown off, and were now floating downwards in their parachute dresses.
At the moment of ascension, light the top end of the fuse at a, and when it has burned to b the parachute will be liberated.
A piece of cotton or twine should be passed through the parachute to attach it to the balloon.
Then again there are conditions of the clouds and atmosphere when a white balloon ascending by daylight would be scarcely visible, and for parachute purposes a daylight ascent is desirable.
A more elaborate parachute may be made by folding a square of paper from corner to corner into a triangle.
Besides they hitched me fast to the parachute ropes so I couldn't have fallen if I'd wanted to.
Then the "Kid" explained how he postponed his parachute drop on this occasion and got down safely, boy and all, by letting the balloon cool off and gradually settle to the ground.
Well, it's just like that for two or three seconds, until your parachute fills wide and springs you up against the ropes.
Then the fourteen segments must be pasted together lengthwise along the edges, and they will form a balloon with enough lifting power to take up a parachute and small passenger, say a kitten or a puppy.
A parachute will open for the one where it won't open for the other.
Instantly the air rushed in underneath, and bellied out the fabric into a great umbrella, a parachute improvised from a ripped balloon.
You just pull a tape that hangs down inside the parachute from a cutaway-block at the parachute head.
The dropping was done by a fuse which would burn the supporting rope and at a given moment set the parachute free, just as a man under the parachute would cut it free.
A five-minute fuse will be long enough, and it must be so placed that when it has burned its time the parachute will fall from the balloon.
As to the ordinary use of hot-air balloons for parachute dropping, the professor has only condemnation.
And in a large number of cases the parachute did not open in time to save the sand-bag man from destruction on the ground.
But a parachute descended, blowing away from the city.
He saw a parachute blossom as a bare speck against the blue.
I landed by parachuteto complete some business deals I'd arranged months ago.
It had left a parachute behind, and now went back to space to rendezvous with its parent ship.
He was racing across a field of olive-green plants that went all the way to the horizon when the parachute actually touched ground.
It rose on the six columns of air which took the place of wheels and slid across the field of dark-green plants, leaving the parachute deflated across a number of rows, and a trail of crushed-down plants where it had moved.
He slowed the ground-car as he estimated where the parachute would land.
Air is a real thing, James, and it keeps the parachute back a great deal.
The reason is, that the parachute takes hold of a large mass of air, and brings it down with it; and so it cannot descend very fast.
When his father said that a parachute was in fact only a large umbrella, he meant a great deal larger than Rollo had supposed.
Then, if the balloon bursts, or any other accident happens to it, and the man begins to fall, the parachute opens and spreads, and then the man falls very slowly.
And this is why Bill did not pull the ring on his manually operated, free parachute before diving out of the amphibian.
Then he saw Sam disappear with his parachutein the high sawgrass.
Bill motioned toward the lower wing section on Osceola's side of the plane, mouthed the word "jump," and patted the pull ring on his own parachute harness.
After notching their ends, he laid the two longer ones side by side and bound the ends together with strands from the parachute rope.
Up went his hands, and getting a good grip on the parachute shrouds, he pulled down hard on the ropes to windward.
A "free" type parachute is one that is complete in one unit, strapped to the person of an aviator by a suitable harness, and one that has no attachments whatever to the aircraft.
The aviator can open his parachute just when clear of the disabled airplane or he can make a long free drop away from burning wreckage or a pursuing enemy plane before he pulls the ring.
Consequently, his tumble did him no harm; the parachute rolled into a large cypress at the edge of the open space and came to a stop.
Until I saw your parachute open up, I was darned worried, I can tell you.
Looking up, he saw that slightly above his head and within reach, the webbing divided into two, and that the shrouds or small cords leading to the outer edge of the parachute were here attached to the harness he wore, in four places.
With a hand on the pull ring of his parachute pack, he dived head first over the cockpit's cowl into the open ether.
He pulled his parachute toward him and commenced to untie the pack.
Okay," sang out Bill, pulling hisparachute from the pack.
The seat pack parachutebellied out behind him and he disappeared from sight.
He was almost down now, and delighted to see that due to his system of sideslipping, the parachute would land him on the island.
A "manually operated" parachute is one that will unpack automatically when the wearer gives a slight pull on the ring located in a readily accessible place on the harness.
He mentioned the assignment of a black parachute battalion to the 82d Airborne Division as a good place to begin.
