Ripcord

Ripcord


The extraordinary story of how a piece of cloth and a few lengths of cord have been developed over 200 years from a crowd-pleasing circus trick to a vital lifesaver to an offensive weapon - and to answering the ultimate aviation question: can humans fly?

Now new parachute designs are taking the technology into space and the realm of the flying machine.

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