¿what is skydiving?

Hello friends of this platform, I hope you are in wonder on this day that tells you about an extreme sport called skydiving

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Skydiving is the technique of launching human beings or objects from a certain height using a parachute to cushion the impact of the landing.

It can be done from any aircraft such as an airplane, helicopter, hot air balloon or from a fixed object. The latter is considered the BASE jump mode. In some cases the parachute is opened immediately upon leaving the aircraft or fixed object and in other cases a controlled free fall (sport) is performed before performing manual or assisted opening depending on the case.

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The first known attempt to parachute took place in Córdoba (Spain), in the year 852, with partial success, since Abbas Ibn Firnás, the man who jumped, suffered some injuries when he fell. The use of the parachute was also suggested by Leonardo da Vinci when he lived in Milan. Throughout history there were many other failed attempts, however the first practical parachute was invented in 1783 by the Frenchman Louis-Sébastien Lenormand. In 1785 the French airman Jean Pierre Blanchard dropped a dog equipped with a parachute from a balloon and in 1793 he claimed to have made the first human descent successfully using a parachute. From now on, parachutes became a common element of passenger equipment in hot air balloons and after World War I they were adopted as safety systems for pilots and passengers on airplanes.

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