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Carried by B-52 bombers, the "bunker busters" used five parachutes to land softly on their targets before detonating a nine megaton explosion, in effect simulating an earthquake.
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First to unfold were the two 14-foot-wide drogue chutes, which oriented the craft and continued slowing it.
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And strips of cloth had been tied around the reserve chute so that it could not be opened either.
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Please urge all ultralight owners with BRS units (or even hand-deploy parachutes) to re-evaluate the series of attachments that connect the pilot to the airplane, to the parachute, and to both.
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At twenty thousand meters, with the pods still traveling at a high velocity, parachutes billowed out from the same boxes that had contained the glider wings.
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And strips of cloth had been tied around the reserve chute so that it could not be opened either.
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The Parachute Regiment could be forced to admit women.
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As a holder of the Combat Infantrymans Badge, it and my Parachute badge are still on my old field jacket, as is the 173 Abn Bde patch on the right shoulder.
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First commercialization application just is knitted make sock and parachute.
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Eberle described fish ladders as custom-built, aluminum or wood water chutes with baffles.
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Suspended from a giant parachute, the bronze-colored capsule carrying the taikonaut, coined from the Chinese word for space, touched down at around 6.23 am after a 21-hour journey that took him around the world 14 times.
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Disaster was obviated by the opening of the reserve parachute.
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There was a sickening lurch as my chute opened and my harness tightened round me so that I could hardly breathe.
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The command module would then descend to the sea on its parachutes.
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Leonardo's inventions - a parachute, hang-glider, tank, underwater diving suit and robot - are built and put to the test for the first time, 500 years after he designed them.
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Kevlar also was used on the Galileo probe to Jupiter, which included a parachute made of Kevlar, and at the International Space Station, where a blanket made of Kevlar was used to wrap its inner walls to protect from micrometeorites.
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The pill slides down the chute into a flexible tube leading to the patient's mouth.
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I agree: if a golden parachute is the difference between black and red ink, then the golden parachute oughta go.
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Mira was thrust into freedom just as she had been chuted into slavery, or at least that is how she thought of it.
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Nothing I have done in my 29 years on this planet comes close to a parachute jump.
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Less than 10 minutes after lift-off the payload parachuted safely back to Earth, and the suborbital flight was over.
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In 1936, 1,200 men in the Red Army parachuted during manoeuvres near Kiev.
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It must be waterproof, vermin-proof and able to survive a 100-foot drop without a parachute.
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Meanwhile, senior mandarins are concerned about the number of political appointees being parachuted into government as civil servants.
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Maya slid through the low gravity of the chute into the shuttle, then belted herself into the control seat.
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Mineral process of hematite in the early time often adopted gravity separation, and it mainly included jig, centrifugal separator, spiral chute, spiral concentrator, shaking table and so on.
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But modern-day swimming pool chutes and ponies captured the imagination and attention of the youngsters.
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But the whiff of being a "carpetbagger" - an insulting term for candidates with no local connections who are parachuted into winnable seats - persists.
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The teddy bears will be equipped with their own small parachute and harness, and carried aloft by a giant kite - then dropped from a height.
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He made over 40 parachute jumps while serving as a rifle platoon leader, battalion adjutant, and commander of a raider platoon.
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When bad weather stopped the jump, the parachute was kept in a store at the airfield that was locked overnight but was left open in the day.
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The silk could also be woven into strong textiles to make parachutes, body armour, ropes and fishing nets.
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The group was tasked to parachute behind enemy lines, infiltrate into the town, reconnoiter the objective, select the place to kill the mayor, and then execute actions on the objective.
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J'y constatais d'abord, qu'une inquiètude nous attendait à tout spectacle auquel nous assistions et qu'une déception à peu près ineffable accompagnait toujours la chute du rideau.
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A thousand feet later, he opened his parachute for a landing.
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The professional pundits who were parachuted into Egypt by the international media have come with them pre-cooked conclusions about "radical Islam", security threats and what it takes to ensure regional stability.
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Back then, it was lazy weekends picnicking by - and whooshing down - the natural sandstone water chute at Slide Rock.
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They also had Scott, a certified rigger, redesign their deployment procedure with a pull-out pilot chute system.
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Leather is a key material for the season, along with parachute silk, cotton poplin, cotton canvas and shining silk.
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The sky diver had a plunge of more than 10 , 000 feet before his parachute opened.
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Roberts said injuries in such an accident could range from burns to broken bones, bruises and sprained ankles from sliding down the emergency chutes.
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Who holds the record for the highest freefall parachute jump?
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Once safely over the French coastline, he simply pulled his parachute ripcord and floated gently to the ground on a clifftop near Calais.
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There were no parachutes seen, nor were emergency radio "beeper" signals heard that day by other aircraft.
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There are also children's favorite tire skiing, four chute enough to hold a tire ski race!
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Gliding is in some senses a modified form of parachuting, in which lift forces are produced by an airfoil-type membrane, so most gliders could also be considered part-time parachuters.
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Eve discovers the world of 'parachute kids,' children of wealthy absentee Asian parents set up in palatial homes near the best high schools.
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They also filled nontraditional billets as air traffic controllers, link trainers, mechanics, and parachute riggers.
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Tourison wrote: "1 case involving 2 airmen from the same loss incident (MIA-KIA/BNR), one parachute was reportedly seen by a wingman, witnesses in Vietnam have testified that a shootdown correlating to this case involved two bodies seen a the crash site.
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The ski/walk switch needs to click louder so you know the cuff is locked forward (an important piece of information when you're about to side-slip into a chute).
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The parachutes opened and the missile stabilized at 5000 feet, at which point the parachutes separated and the rocket was ignited.
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NEW YORK mdash; The renegade flight attendant who cursed out a passenger and emergency-chuted to folk-hero status thanked the world for its support and said ...
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He decided that since the loft was up high, and the mail needed to come back down, they should have a mail chute to send the mail down to the carriers' boxes for delivery.
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And he made a parachute drop to raise cash for a forces charity.
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I unfortunately lost the pictures of his very slick bridles, but he has created two aerotow bridles from Spectra and Vectran lines in thicknesses used for shroud lines on parachutes.
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Today, a parachute is a drag chute and both crewmen were onboard the aircraft.
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Police launched a murder inquiry almost eight weeks ago after disclosing that the cord on the main parachute and the strapping on his reserve chute had been deliberately severed.
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The assertion that the noise of the parachutes opening can be terrifying puzzles me somewhat.
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He was parachuted into Jacqmar, a women's fashion subsidiary, and his interest in retail was born.
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Parachutes sewn at home are made from ripstop nylon and use twill tape to reinforce its seams.
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The nation will be in turmoil within 12 months if they get in, with jobs for the bludgers, kickbacks for everyone who has never worked and the poor old worker down the chute again.
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The team performed their aerial display, then broke off to deploy their parachutes and land back at the airfield.
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ski-basing" - a combination of skiing and Base jumping in which you hurtle off the top of a mountain on skis, release them in mid-air and sail down the mountainside in a "wingsuit" like a flying squirrel, before finally deploying a parachute - which claimed his life last year:
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Each had its own harness and parachute that opened automatically during descent.
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Golden parachutes entitle them to a full year's salary if they get booted out of the company.
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Couldn't they airlift food and water and drop it by parachute or helicopter to some dry areas?
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Pilots had begun learning how to parachute with life rafts dangling between their legs.
Spitfire Women of World War II
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We spent a couple of hours alternately gaining height by climbing up polished ramps then immediately losing it again by sliding down chutes the other side.
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They found what they said was a parachute, but it's my belief that was either a blind or it was really some kind of collapsible boat.
The Man from the Clouds
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Father Conmee sat in a corner of the tramcar, a blue ticket tucked with care in the eye of one plump kid glove, while four shillings, a sixpence and five pennies chuted from his other plump glovepalm into his purse.
Ulysses
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Your main method of movement is a grappling hook and parachute combo that allows you to scale any surface with ease.
Times, Sunday Times
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Vibrations and failure to heed the warnings by the contractor resulted in the loss of the STS-4 (IIRC) boosters when the main parachute deck fitting separation explosive bolts inadvertantly fired prematurely when the linear shaped charge used to separate the frustum (nose cone) from the booster fired and generated vibes that the decelerometers sensed as water-impact ... at 10,000 ft.!
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Hopefully you'll keep that in mind while the board has the accountants prepare your golden parachute.
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Paratroopers who parachuted in will be lifted by crane back to their helicopters.
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Everything was relatively dark and these hulking machines were taking in reddish white hot molten glass down these chutes and sending out glowing red beer bottles about 3 dozen at a time.
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Scientists studied the rover landing site images to determine the likely reflectance properties of Mars Polar Lander's parachute and the blast zone created on the Martian surface by Mars Polar Lander's retrorockets.
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The old, round, ungovernable army-surplus chutes - the ones that sent people drifting into trees and breaking both legs - are gone.
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The mixture shall be plastic in consistency, and under no circumstances be of a consistency which can be poured (chuted concrete).
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Prosthetic limbs are dropped by parachute to a wind blown field hospital for land mine victims.
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The chute is deployed when a mechanism in the plane's aft bulkhead door jettisons the plane's tailcone.
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The pilot bailed out and parachuted into the sea.
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Voskhod capsules also had larger parachutes to permit ground landings.
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The pool, with its inflatables and tubular chute, went down a storm, and the play park was an unexpected little treasure, discovered during our evening walk.
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Sheriff was blinded by a German mortar bomb seven hours after he parachuted in 1944.
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So last night, over my Red Chicken Curry, I was verbally assailed by the diner to my left, who stated that cryonic freezing as a parachute option in the event of one's own death was ‘arrogant’.
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Once found, we then drop 2-liter bottles of water attached to parachutes.
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Lining up alongside his sporting hero, two-time Olympic gold medallist Michael Diamond, the parachute rigger had a bad first two days, scoring below his usual score.
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There was a large rent in his parachute.
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And not only that the knowledge of surfing with the dragon and the parachute (kiteboarding), also known as kiting, driving attractive to travel on the sea, but also on snow, ice, sand consolidated basis or even a meadow.
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He, however, not having observed the anthelion at the moment when her image appeared in it, had not been especially surprised by a phenomenon which he had already seen several times and observed under better conditions from the parachute of a balloon, and having taken no particular notice of it, had nothing to say about it.
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I was shocked and felt like I had leapt from a plane without a parachute.
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In 1922, Soviet soldiers were dropped successfully by parachute from aircraft.
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You can't be worrying if you steered your parachute badly and land in the wrong field.
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Parachute drops could be made by Whitley and Wellington bombers.
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The wings are added to represent entry into combat via air, and the bendlets symbolize the unit's parachute drops into combat.
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Sixty years after he parachuted into battle at Arnhem, Yorkshire veteran Tom Hicks descended once again from the skies to mark its anniversary.
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But patrons were equally taken with White City's enjoyable attractions, including several roller coasters, a chute-the-chutes, two ballrooms, inexpensive eats, and its landmark Electric Tower.
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Parachute packs a foot-tapping pop melody into its fidgety frame, coming across something like a grittier, grizzlier
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One physics task involves pupils examining which laws of physics apply to packages dropping down a parcels chute.
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The surface is mushy in places, icy and unyielding in others, and higher up there are rock chutes and faces protruding through the snowpack.
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Lord C told her to take a spot of leave before reporting for a short parachute course.
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OC Parachute Maintenance Wing Capt Jimi Harcourt is responsible for the parachute riggers and all parachutes and related equipment.
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A planned "Batcave" - like chute from the surface was nixed due to budget concerns.
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The assassinations and executions were to be carried out by agents already in place in the occupied countries or by agents parachuted in specifically for the task.
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He made his first parachute jump at the age of seventy.
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I took a bit more time to fool around flying the chute, doing turns and spins, and also having a better look around.
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The cartridge-activated device did not fire immediately, but by the time it did, the hoist cable was under tension from the parachute, making the cable hit the right sponson as the cable separated.
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Earth arrival is accomplished by aerocapture, followed by descent of the sample container under a parachute.
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Like most aspects of early hip-hop, these baggy pants were appropriated into mainstream culture, where the term parachute expanded to describe the large amount of fabric used for them.
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The chute-the-chutes riding device (the chutes led from the tower) is one of the best remembered segments of the park.
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Parachute riggers from the 82nd Airborne Division in February conducted the first airdrop of fuel to support Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.
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That was prevented by an automatic parachute arrangement which came into instantaneous operation.
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One recipient was Jan De Vries, who was airdropped into Normandy before dawn on D-Day with the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion.
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There was, however, no way of contacting them and arranging for a parachute drop.
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An emergency chute also failed to open after snagging on his arm.
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Now, nearly 13 years later, she has decided to do a parachute jump to raise money for the special care baby unit at Great Western Hospital.
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Years ago all these slopes were denuded of their valuable timber, which was "chuted" down to the Lake and then towed across to the sawmills at Glenbrook.
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She stands stiff, feet together, as the parachute pulls her into the air, making her possibly the first Inuk woman to parasail in the Arctic.
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Pilots had begun learning how to parachute with life rafts dangling between their legs.
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An eight-paddle blower dispenses the material through a 300° swivel chute that can also place fodder along a feed barrier by directing on to the sloping 'toboggan' slide.
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If it weren't for the parachute riggers' dedication to making sure aircrew have all their required equipment, in good condition, we would have lost a lot more pilots.
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He jettisoned his parachute but died after his reserve chute failed to open in time.
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In case you were wondering, you hook your arms through the straps of another jumper's parachute.
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The term parachute almost makes it seem like there's some sort of financial salvation out there for everyone.
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They expressed a wish to do a parachute jump from the tower then but were not allowed.
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There are problems with fuel, problems with parachutes, guns, explosions -- you know the drill.
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Leo Houlding, for example, parachuted into Baffin Island in the Arctic Circle, then spent weeks climbing an iced-up rock tower called Mount Asgard, only to leap from the top in a wingsuit.
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On the safety concern I believe nowadays the outer skin can be made of materials able to withstand the impact of birds etc without being too heavy, compartimentalisation helps too, to keep toying with ideas I reckon one of the nacelles could be jettisonable and have a big fat parachute.
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A Land Warrior platoon - each soldier outfitted with body armor, a computerized backpack system and helmet-mounted monocular eyepiece - is also part of the parachute assault.
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Eighty-nine passengers slid down emergency chutes and jumped from the wings as smoke billowed from a toilet.
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A panda cub careers down a wooden chute on its tummy watched by one of its pals.
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Impossible as it may seem, this domestic utopia is actually achievable, thanks to laundry chutes.
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With today's gliders you might need a drogue chute to land there.
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All three Parachute Regiment battalions are safe.
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Using the handle of a fork, make about 5 'chutes' from top to bottom of mound of rice: one in the center, and 4 around the periphery.
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The one tally he did manage to keep was the number of parachute jumps he made: some 2,000.
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Large, multi-coloured plastic chutes on the mound would make great helter-skelter slides.
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Bobcat Olympics: Killam placed a video camera overlooking a weir, that is, a chute-like apparatus positioned in a creek to funnel migrating salmon upstream to spawning habitat.
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The park has three water rides including a very short Log Flume, a River Rapids Ride, and an excellently themed chute-the-chutes splash ride called Escape from Pompeii.
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At once terrifying and thrilling, many would consider a parachute jump to be the experience of a lifetime.
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Now through rushing chutes, among green islands, where plumelike
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It's worse than the sound of your parachute failing to open.
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Boot soles are chevroned for hiking and accept crampons for climbing up icy chutes.
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But the ability of a Steve Forbes to parachute into that field shows a vacuum there.
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At about eight hundred feet, I opened my chute and sailed down.
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Master Chief Watson ordered the platoon diving supervisor to inspect and predive each Draeger scuba, and the platoon riggers to check the parachutes and fast-rope gear.
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The sodden rocket would not ignite and his soggy parachute failed to open.
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They hope to get 350 people to parachute in 24 hours to set a tandem jump world record.
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There was intense speculation 18 months ago that the former foreign secretary might be parachuted into the Scottish Parliament.
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Post-war development of parachutes acting as brakes on jet aircraft are also covered in this rarely written about subject.
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He exited through the baggage chute door into the loading area, which is a highly restricted area.
The Sun
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All the passengers put on a parachute and jump.
The Sun
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There will be gospel singers and choirs and the service will close with a freefall parachute display.
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I then saw a parachute land.
The Sun
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And also, it's good to be reminded that my smalls haven't always resembled a Second World War parachute.
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I'd love to do a parachute jump, but I can't pluck up the/enough courage.
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The plane's weapons officer parachuted into a rocky field and hid in a sheep pen as locals approached.
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Yet it must be said that throughout the proceedings his mouth gave a passable impersonation of a garbage chute.
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Evidence for the scheme was said to have been discovered when a model of a dolphin wearing a parachute harness was unearthed at a Russian military installation.
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But he taught me how to make a parachute with Saran Wrap and how to repair bicycles.
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Pilots had begun learning how to parachute with life rafts dangling between their legs.
Spitfire Women of World War II
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Douglas made his first 10,000 foot parachute jump yesterday.
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He looked up, horror in his straining eyes as the fire licked greedily along the edges of his parachute.
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Our first assignment was to move a group of steers from one holding pen, down an aisle, into a holding tub, through a curved chute, then weigh them on a scale and move them through a squeeze chute.
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There is only one entrance to be a patriot: be a POW in Vietnam, in a manner your enemy missile brings you down because you are an under-average, unadept pilot and you don't know how to use parachute so you break your leg and the enemy captures you on Oct. 26, 1967.
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It weathercocked slightly into the wind but coasted for what seemed like ages; finally the top section popped off and the parachute came out.
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For the Gemini program, it developed a ballute system, an inflatable balloon-parachute combination that slowed the descent of spaceships re-entering Earth's atmosphere.
Undefined
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In this paper, a method to determine and calculate terminal test load is pointed out for adjusting brake rope parachute gear for cage hoisting in auxiliary shaft.
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The mum waxed lyrical about the automatic shirt ironer and laundry chute.
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There are lots of satin and technical fabrics which include silk jersey, duchess satin, silk satin, parachute silk, viscose organza, silk twill, cotton canvas and taffeta.
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At first glance, the powered parachute appears a hermaphroditic aircraft - half loud, thrusting engine, half soft, pliant airfoil.
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Attached to the sack was a length of pennant rigging, which he left adrift within reach of the opening chute.
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Cavernous and rambling, possessed of uninterrupted views of the Coney Island parachute jump, and with what my cousin still calls "ripply walls" (faux stucco), the place had sat unoccupied for a few years except for all of my grandparents' furniture, my grandmother's clothes, bags of long-forgotten photographs from the Old Country taken right before Hitler marched into Poland, and a jar of two year old gefilte fish sitting in the (thankfully still running) refrigerator.
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These young children of extremely high intellectual acumen fail to be interested in ‘child's play’ for the same reason that in adulthood they will fail to patronize custard-pie movies or chute-the-chutes at amusement parks.
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Once in the water, the hoist promptly snarled in the parachute's shroud lines.
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The men kill time collecting the small parachutes from the shells in between attacks and bombardments.
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As the parachute shot out from the top of the spacecraft, the aerobrake was released to fall freely to the surface of Mars.
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He now works as an instructor to other troops undergoing parachute training.
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Analyst Jeff Hammond, an ex-crew chief who has dabbled in pro wrestling, has bobsledded, parachuted, ridden a fighter jet and crushed cars in a monster truck for footage to liven things up.
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We slid down a short chute and landed on a soft mattress with everyone looking at us.
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Here he might live a strange litany, delivered from right and wrong and from the hound of heaven and from every God (except the exotic Mexican one who was pretty slack himself and rather addicted to Oriental scents) delivered from success and hope and poverty into that long chute of indulgence which led, after all, only to the artificial lake of death.
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ballute recovery system meant that the vehicle's Global Positioning System driven steerable main parachute could not be deployed as intended, Armadillo officials stated.
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Each had its own harness and parachute that opened automatically during descent.
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What is certain is that these golden parachutes were monuments to greed, cronyism and the absence of accountability.
Times, Sunday Times
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In addition to clerical work, they also filled positions as parachute riggers, mechanics, radio operators, mapmakers, and welders.
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AN EXPERIENCED parachutist died after his parachute failed to open during a 13,000 ft jump on Sunday.
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Beyond where the chutes were being erected, a long line of stock trucks and house trailers were parked, and Mex cowboys were herding broncs into one corral, bulls into another.
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Grav Chute Insertion: embarked squads can deep strike over any point the Valkyrie moves over in its Movement phase, taking dangerous terrain tests as they land.
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They converted them to radio control and use them to drop parachutes for testing, far cheaper than the Blackhawk helicopters they were using for these tests.
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Sgt Sylvia Connolly is a parachute rigger at PTS and is also the second female in 40 years to become a PJI.
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It helps to know what living in the village is like as it feels odd to be parachuted into this weird little world populated by 10,000 athletes.
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The main chute cluster banged open and a second bar switch was extended.
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The point of attaching the parachute bridle to the carabineer is that then you can dangle from the hang glider as you come down under chute.
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The pilot was able to parachute to safety.
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Golden parachutes entitle them to a full year's salary if they get booted out of the company.
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Amanda has been parascending - hanging from a parachute and being towed hundreds of feet behind a speedboat.
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The former Parachute Regiment sniper was not overly concerned.
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I'd love to do a parachute jump, but I can't pluck up the/enough courage.
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His method of accomplishing this feat proves what we have just said of his "safeness" -- he sounded the chute first, and then built a fire at the head of the island to run by.
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There was intense speculation 18 months ago that the former foreign secretary might be parachuted into the Scottish Parliament.
