Franz Reichelt—AKA “The Flying Tailor”—was an Austrian-born tailor living in France during the early 1900s, and is credited with pioneering an entirely wearable parachute suit that looked less like a ...
In 1912, tailor Franz Reichelt climbed the Eiffel Tower wearing his homemade parachute suit. He wanted to prove the world wrong - to show that courage and invention could defy gravity. But when he ...
In 1912 Franz Reichelt, an Austrian-born daredevil, jumped from the Eiffel Tower wearing homemade wings. He was the latest in a long line of men who had conducted similar experiments over the ...
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