History of the Paraquedismo

The first experiences with parachute date of century IX, in the Iberian peninsula. At the time, the region, under Arab domain, was one of the technological centers of the world. E was there, in Córdoba, 852, that Armen Firman tried to alçar flight, shooting themselves in the emptiness of the high one of a tower. The first practical test was carried through by Croatian inventor Faust Vrancic. In 1617, it jumped of a tower in Venice with a squared parachute and autodenominou homo volans (flying man). The interest for the device that aparava the fall of men alone increased much time later, already in the iluminista age. At this time the used material was very heavy, then French inventor Blanchard thought about a lighter, compact and folding archetype that the wood and the hemp. The logical exit was levíssima silk. Who gave to the first jump using this new material was, the also French one, Andres Jacques Garmerin, in 1797, using a silk of 7 meters of diameter, seemed an umbrella. The jump was a success, height of 2500 meters. During century XIX, some improvements had been implemented, as lifters (1887) and the knapsack for keeps it in the coasts (1890). In 1912, the captain of the North American army Alberty Berry jumped for the first time of an airplane. The partnership between the parachute and the Armed Forces was born there. The first occasion where he was used was during the First World War. At that time, the corrections of the artillery shots were made by the embarked advanced observers in balloons. The enemy, to blind the comment, used airplanes to knock down the balloons, then the observers had started to use the parachutes to save its lives. The airplane pilots alone had started to use the equipment in the end of the war, because of the argument nonsense that, without the parachute, them would be more militant in preventing the fall of the aircraft. The period entreguerras was of strong development of the pára-quededistas units. In U.S.A., the enthusiastic greater was Brigadier General Willy Mitchell. Other countries, as Soviet Union, Italy and Germany, had also demonstrated great military enthusiasm for the equipment. In 1927, Italian troops had carried through, with success, the first collective jump of a consisting unit (division folgore). In the Ussr, the Soviets they had invested in jumps of great scale and, in 1935, 6 a thousand soldiers had jumped in Kiev. In Germany, the new type of troop found its greater incentivador, General Student, that operacionalizou the job of the troop as weapon of strategical assault, being famous the battle in the Mediterranean island of Crete, despite the raised number of decreases. From now on, practically all the armies of the world had implemented paraquedistas troops in its pictures, also the Brazilian Army (Brigade of Paraquedista Infantry), inhaled in the North American model. Currently, some troops of the elite exist spread by the globe being used when the situation is delicate and demands the job of soldiers of undeniable quality as the paraquedistas military.