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...Jacques Istel, president of the committee of the Sixth world championship of sport parachuting, currently being held in Orange, led the discussion of sky-diving. Isten was the man who introduced the sport to the U.S. in the fifties...
...Sport parachuting was brought to this country from France in 1956 by Jacques Istel...
...Sport parachuting was brought to this country from France in 1956 by Jacques Istel...
...Practiced Preacher. So convinced was Istel of the sport's future that last week he went to Washington to talk to the Civil Aeronautics Administration about safety regulations for parachuting for fun, similar to those in Europe, where jumping instruction is as rigidly controlled as the classics course in a French lycée. At this stage, Istel fears, a major accident would probably give the sport back to the country-fair stuntmen. His gospel spread to another important corner. Istel hustled back to his exurbanite home in New York's upper Westchester County to practice what...
...technique that tamed sport parachuting, according to Istel, is sky diving, in which the jumper controls his body as he hurtles toward earth before pulling his ripcord. The skillful sky diver leaves the plane spread-eagled, looking somewhat like a highboard swan diver, his body horizontal. Despite falling speeds up to 120 m.p.h.. the body is remarkably stable in this position. Properly executed, a sky dive is spinproof (accidental spins can whirl or tumble the body up to three times a second, black out the jumper) and keeps the diver on his belly, so his backpack chute can open...