In 1927 this man was the first to throw himself in parachute with a motorcycle without killing (but almost)

A few days ago we brought you to Chad O'Neal, an American young who has made adrenaline his way of life and has managed to astonThe abyss in a full speed takeoff.

The truth is that the mantra of "everything is invented" ends up being right and removing it to many pioneers, so today we are going to talk about other precursors in this discipline of driving a motorcycle towards the abyss and opening a parachute to tell it.Or not.

Parachute, motorcycles and excessive risk

Since the human being is human, he has always tried to explore the limits of the physically possible and healthy for life.Some crazy pioneers have gone down in history for challenging the reasonable in search of glory with very different results.

Another way to challenge death came from the hand of the jumps of height and the need to cushion the fall in some way until in the year 852 Abbás Ibn Fire executed in Córdoba the first of the jumps with parachute.He survived not without suffering wounds of diverse consideration but at least lived to tell.

Some time later Leonardo Da Vinci collected this technique among his mills and it was not until 1785 when the Frenchman Jean Pierre Blanchard threw a dog with a parachute from a globe.After making poor animal suffer, he perfected his technique for almost 10 years and in 1793 he assured that he had made the first jump with parachute as we know today.We repeat, he assured.

Paracharidism extended its popularity as gunpowder around the whole globe and many tried to be the first to achieve it.It was not until October 22, 1797, when André Jacques Garnerin signed the first jump documented from a hydrogen balloon at a height of 350 meters above Paris before the stunned look of thousands of spectators.Since then his performances became an extremely popular show until he died, not a jump as a good part of his audience, but by hitting the head with a beam while preparing a balloon ascent in 1929.

At the beginning of the 20th century with motorcycle fever by whipping the minds of the most adventurous citizens, exploring the limits of speed and transcending the first organized races, other indomitable beings began to look for applications of the most crazy to those vehicles that were symbolof freedom and source of adrenaline.

It ran 1926 when Fred Osborne decided to face the greatest challenge known until then: jump with a motorcycle to the void and leave unharmed thanks to the help of a parachute.The idea did not seem too complicated and joined almost everything that could be requested in such an epic deed to date: speed, risk, height and a probability of extremely high death.

To tell the truth Osborne was not a pioneer.This idea was not at all new because in 1912 the story of Franz Reichelt is known, a seamstress who jumped into the void from one of the intermediate levels of the Eiffel Tower with his motorcycle equipped with a parachute handmade at home after snoopinga "see you soon."He died on the spot when his parachute did not work as he expected.

Osborne was convinced that Reichelt and others who ran similar luck were nothing more than simple fans or were too cowardly to launch from heights high enough.

The American chose the stage at the Huntington Cliff's cliff on the outskirts of Los Angeles and began advertising his deed.When in 1927 he captured enough attention to the population he began with the preparations by building a primitive wooden ramp at the end of a dirt road and confirmed his feat calling the public and a camera to immortalize his deed.

It was November and the conditions were perfect.The good of Osborne was motivated.Very motivated.He prepared his team, made sure that the harnesses were well subject to their body, started their motorcycle and faced the final moment without more security measures than their toupee, a jersey with dice and a denture without superior incisors that allowed to glimpse their backgroundas acrobat.Of course there was no previous test or trial.

Fred accelerated up to a speed of almost 100 km/h on the earth and threw himself on the ramp.Neither the take -off trajectory nor the speed were the necessary so that what Osborne had imagined in his head could have a reasonable physical logic.He flew over the precipice in a rather precarious way and tried to open the parachute as soon as he left the ramp.

With a clear height about 60 meters from the edge of the cliff to the ground, there was no necessary time for the parachuteGet a trip to the other neighborhood.

Luckily for Osborne, his adventures theoretically ran about telephone cables that should surpass placidly in his descent.Cables that without moving a millimeter crossed in the middle of his fall trajectory.Fred collided with those cables just as to cushion his fall.

Laying on the floor of Los Angeles the crowd ran towards the body of Osborne and despite the fact that the public planned to find a lifeless body, they found a battered, injured, but conscious adventurer while their motorcycle burned between flames only a few meters morethere.Osborne was transferred to the hospital in critical condition and doctors were able to save him to recover and be able to tell the world the non-gesta of him.He obviously never tried again.

Fred Osborne, Evel Knievel, Travis Pastrana, Brad O'Neal ... there will always be crazy people in the world, the only thing that changes is the magnitude of his follies.And yes, the Osborne jump was also the first to be registered thanks to a footage recovered and published by British Pathé in the video you can see below:

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