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People have always been interested in flying airplanes and helicopters but they don’t make you feel like a bird. Leonardo da Vinci and Patrick de Gayardon wanted people to feel like they were really flying.
  • born 1452, in Vinci (Italy)
  • loved nature as a child and he was very curious
  • he wasn't only a painter (sculptor, architect, writer, composer, scientist, mathematician, inventor)
  • helped invent things we use nowadays
  • Da Vinci worked for a man who worked for this family
  • Medici family was a powerful, cultural and artistic family that influenced Da Vinci
  • He listened to these people talk when they had their evening meetings (artists, writers, scientists...)
  • 1486
  • aircraft
  • it was supposed to move like a bird
  • complicated control system
  • only designed, personally never created

Da Vinci was influenced by the people that I'm going to show you now.

  • 9th century
  • born in Spain, (Al-Andalus)
  • he did a lot of things
  • first person to fly with a pair of wings
  • first time he tried his invention, it didn't work
  • 11th century
  • English monk
  • made wings, attached them to his body and jumped from a high tower
  • he flew 200+ meters, but he broke his legs when he landed

All these people from the past influenced inventors in the present.Patrick de Gayardon is one of them.

  • born 1960, in Oullins (near Paris)
  • parents died when he was 2 years old, lived with grandparents
  • studied law at university
  • loved sports (tennis, golf, volleyball and skiing)
  • started doing base jumping at
20 years old
  • at the end of the 80s he started doing sky surfing
  • he jumped from 12700 meters with no respirator + set a record
  • some people call him a “flight scientist”
Base jumping
  • he designed a wingsuit with fabric between the arms + legs
(this made it possible for humans to glide in the air)
  • he needed 3 years to design the suit
  • he tested the suit in October of 1997
  • he died in 1998 when a test jump didn’t work (the parachute didn’t open)

Patrick was influenced by the inventors I showed you before and also the people that I'm going to show you now.

  • 1912
  • French tailor
  • He is recognized for jumping off the Eiffel Tower, while he was testing his new parachute
  • He died because the parachute didn’t open
  • 1930
  • American airshow performer
  • jumped from a homemade glider at 10,000 metres
  • was watched by 100,000 people
  • he died because the parachute didn’t open

Many inventors died because they were their own guinea pigs.The idea of flying like a bird is senseless because nowadays you can have the best technology, but if the parachute doesn't open you can die.

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