Franz Reichelt - Wikipedia
His parachute, which had seemed to be only half-open, folded around him almost immediately and he fell for a few seconds before striking the frozen soil at the foot of the tower. Le Petit Parisien reported that Reichelt's right leg and arm were crushed, his skull and spine broken, and that he was bleeding from his mouth, nose and ears.
Franz Reichelt’s Death Jump off the Eiffel Tower (1912) - YouTube
2011年7月27日 · Franz Reichelt jumps off the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France wearing a crazy homemade parachute contraption and tragically falls to his death in this archive f...
Franz Reichelt, The Man Who Died Jumping Off The Eiffel Tower
2021年10月4日 · On the cold morning of Feb. 4, 1912, Franz Reichelt arrived at the Eiffel Tower at 7 a.m. But to the abject horror of his friends, he hadn’t brought any dummies with him. He was wearing his parachute suit, and intended to test it himself.
Franz Reichelt, The Man Who Jumped Off The Eiffel Tower - All …
2023年9月29日 · He didn’t intend to die — this wasn’t an Eiffel Tower suicide attempt. Instead, Franz Reichelt had set out to prove that his prized invention, a bizarre parachute suit, could deliver him safely to the ground.
Death Jump 1912: The Tragic & Ironic Story of Tailor Turned
2024年3月7日 · In 1910 Reichelt had thrown a dummy wearing his parachute suit out the window of his third floor apartment, but that experiment had failed. His wings didn’t catch any air; the parachute apparatus failed to deploy and the dummy fell to the earth like a stone.
The Flying Tailor- The sad story of the man who jumped off the Eiffel …
2016年11月28日 · Such was Franz Reichelt, a tailor passionate about flying who invented a parachute and jumped off the Eiffel Tower. The parachute proved inadequate for the move, the flight was a straight fall from the first platform of the Eiffel Tower–and fatal for Reichelt.
Death Jump off the Eiffel Tower: Paris, France (1912) - YouTube
This distressing footage depicts a gentleman, Franz Reichelt, attempting to jump off of the Eiffel Tower with a custom made parachute in 1912 to his ultimate...
The Spectacular Televised Death Of Franz Reichelt: The Eiffel Tower ...
2015年8月12日 · The parachute failed. Franz Reichelt was dead. The Prefect of Police, Louis Lépine, was forced to make a statement to the press denying that Reichelt had been authorized to make the jump himself. The cameras continued to roll as Reichelt was carried to hospital and a man measured the depth of the hole made by the impact of his body.
DEATH JUMP: Story of Franz Reichelt Jumps Off the Eiffel Tower …
2015年8月12日 · In a cruel twist, only 2 days earlier an American Jockey, Frederick R. Law, had successfully parachuted from the torch of the Statue of Liberty over 63m (223ft) using the now widely recognised half-sphere design. Sadly, Reichelt is not remembered as an aviation pioneer. Instead his story is regarded as another example of human stupidity and hubris.
Franz Reichelt’s Fatal Jump - Amusing Planet
2020年12月15日 · Franz Reichelt showing his parachute suit before the jump. Reichelt began petitioning the authorities for permission to conduct experiments from the Eiffel Tower, but each time he was rebuffed. After a year of trying, he was eventually granted permission to do so, under the condition that the test had to be performed on a dummy.