parachutes
-
This Australian Restaurant Delivers Meals By Parachute
In the broad spectrum of goofball ideas out there, attaching piping fresh toasties to colourful little parachutes and tossing them out of a window to someone’s open arms ranks pretty highly towards the Yup, That’s Pretty Damn Silly end of things. And yet! Jafflechutes exists, and it does exactly that. What a wonderful world.
-
Giz Explains: How To Jump Out Of A Plane And Live To Tell About It
“It’s not the fall that kills you,” as the saying goes, “it’s the sudden stop at the end.” Humans are a rather splattery bunch when dropped from a sufficient height, but that hasn’t kept us out of the sky. Instead, we’ve spent centuries perfecting the process of controlled falling to make the stop after any…
-
Parachute Bag Collapses With A Tug
Collapsing the average reusable bag into its compact form is more challenging than most MENSA puzzles. So save yourself the frustration with Michael Pappas’ brilliant Chute bag that automatically collapses as you yank on its built-in ripcord — like a bizarro world parachute.
-
This BASE Jumper Miraculously Survived His Parachute Failing
Lucky Chance, professional badass, seems surprised himself to be alive. After flying off this cliff on the epically named Devil’s Swing, he did a triple backflip, counting on his chute to deploy. Only it didn’t, leaving him to fall 180m to certain death.