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Paperback A Leap from the Clouds: The Balloon-Parachute Act and the Daredevil Heritage of Aviation Book

ISBN: 1476689601

ISBN13: 9781476689609

A Leap from the Clouds: The Balloon-Parachute Act and the Daredevil Heritage of Aviation

In the late nineteenth century, circus aerialists collaborated with show balloonists to perform death-defying stunts, initially by suspending themselves from trapeze bars beneath a balloon, later by jumping from the balloons using fabric parachutes. By the 1890s, these performances became a worldwide craze, remaining in rural fairs and fetes for decades. Many of the original balloon-parachute pioneers went on to play key roles in the creation...

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