500 Years Later, Parachutist Proved Leonardo da Vinci’s Parachute Works

• fz
  May 5th, 2008 at 2:22 am

  big pyramid parachute has air resistance

  big deal

• BOLL
  May 5th, 2008 at 3:13 am

  Swiss means he is from Switzerland, not Sweden :3

• Ali S.
  May 5th, 2008 at 3:56 am

  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
  May 5th, 2008 at 9:46 am

  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
  May 5th, 2008 at 9:54 am

  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.

• Jimbo
  May 5th, 2008 at 11:04 am

  I can’t understand why anyone would care.

• fsmarch
  May 5th, 2008 at 12:06 pm

  Thank you, roger. You saved me the trouble of replying to fz.

• Diogenes
  May 5th, 2008 at 5:05 pm

  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
  May 5th, 2008 at 5:45 pm

  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
  May 5th, 2008 at 11:01 pm

  He’s been trying to prove that for 500 years. He must be a very old man indeed.

• Viola
  May 5th, 2008 at 11:13 pm

  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.

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