Swedish parachutist Olivier Vietti-Teppa finally proved, after 500 years, that Leonardo da Vinci’s parachute design actually does work!
Link – via Scribal Terror
BBC News has the video clip: Link
Ali S.
I wish I could afford to buy those gigantic Leonardo books that contain copies of all his works. I think there are 7 volumes of those and boy are they expensive. 
Sheldon
Yeah, we actually made the same parachute in my 9th grade Science class in an egg drop competition. My group won. It’s all about resistance and surface area, which this design obviously has.
roger
fz : the big deal is that Leonardo was a visionary who was way ahead of his time, thinking about drag forces when his contemporaries were obsessed with magic spells.
Diogenes
the fact that the guy dropped from a coventional 21century helicopter negates it to pure attention antics. If he made his “da Vinci parachute” and then dropped from his “da Vinci Helicopter” , I might be impressed—but only if he landed in a glass of water on a horse.
Hirudin
Nobody’s saying Leo wasn’t great, but this guy didn’t prove s***.
Also, I think I detect a subtle difference in scale between the drawing and the photo.
ted
He’s been trying to prove that for 500 years. He must be a very old man indeed.
Viola
Does this have anything to do with the Da Vinci Code? Because if not, I can’t see why anyone would want to read about it. I loved that movie.
Marie-Pier
An author has made some research on Leonardo Da Vinci and he find out that the story we know is false, the historian who wrote on the life of Da Vinci did it 60 years after his death made it very literary. Check out this site http://davincisfumato.com/.
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