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A Leap of Faith From the Eiffel Tower
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Saldo Wines, Oakville, California
Tailor franz rikelt wanted to try out his parachute suit on a dummy. The first prototype had a canopy of just six square yards. Ricelt redesigned the suit, this time with a 12 square yard canopy. He threw the dummy off his balcony, and the results were little better. Reicelt made the canopies bigger and bigger, in the end, over 30 square yards.
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