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Unravel The Secrets Behind
High Rise Emergency Parachutes
And Discover Why
An Escape Chute Can Save Your Life
A short history leap
It started with Leonardo da Vinci
who designed the first parachute in 1485 but never built it.
Lee Miller, of Chicago, Illinois
spent a lot of time pondering an idea for an escape parachute and was granted a patent from the
U.S. Patent Office in Washington, D.C. on September 10, 1912.
[Patent Number 1,037,959, Parachute Device].
Adolf Odkolek von Augezd,
a Hungarian citizen, residing at Baden, near Vienna,
was granted a patent
by the U.S. Patent Office for a emergency chute making fourteen unique claims for an improvement of an emergency parachute. [December 9, 1913,
parachute: #1,081,137].
He especially noted "That the device may also be used as a fire escape in buildings."
More ideas for people rescuing themselves with emergency parachutes were popping up but little was or is yet done by architects and builders
to incorporate these ideas into their buildings.
You are still living in a "stone age" building where your only escape are the fire stairs and elevators.
In 1970 the U.S. Patent Office issued a patent to a South American inventor for a high rise emergency parachute system.
That was 35 years ago
and still governments have not adapted their building codes and incorporated some means of emergency egress from burning high rise buildings.
You are left to find your way out by internal descent. And that may be often impossible with smoke- and flame-filled corridors and stairwells.
You are still at the mercy of emergency crews, who will of course give their best, but may not always able to help.
The agony of fire
Paul Berk,
a test pilot for Pratt & Whitney Aircraft in East Hartford, Connecticut,
was doing specialized performance tests with a U.S. Navy F6F
"Wildcat" fighter plane....Something went wrong....
Parts exploded through the engine cowling and oil covered the windshield. Fire fueled by
gasoline and oil started immediately, ripping through the firewall into the pilot compartment. Berk's left hand clawed through the flames,
groping for the fuel shut-off control, but the red and yellow and blue wall of fire started cooking his hand and toasting his arm...
Flames
charred his flying suit and shoes, singed his face.
In agony brought on by his burns, Berk made a decision: 'I'm gettin' the hell outta here!'
Berk can still vividly recall those agonizing moments. "I would', he says, "have jumped from that plane even if I
didn't have a parachute. You can't imagine such pain. I would not have let myself die that way."
Article by Jim Bates, http://www.aero.com/publications/parachutes/9512/pc1295.htm
Discover how to prepare yourself and why a high rise emergency parachute is one of the answers in dealing
effectively with the problem of trapped people. Please Read more HERE
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