[brain worms]

he was very stupid what a idiot soooo stupid that he was to jump he dident use his stupid brains are did he .........STUPID aSSSSS

[Sharon]

Wow, vintage base jumping! That was great footage - sad but great in a historically interesting way

[The2Halves]

Nice......like the vintage video.

[chizdog]

Maybe he should of tested it befor jumping of the Eiffle tower

Great find though

[ColonelVile]

I do not think he was dreaming, I think he just woke up one day with the idiotic idea of making a nonsensical contraption, wearing it and committing suicide off the tower. I believe if anything it helped improve the aerodynamic for him to drop like a fucking rock.

[vulturedoors]

You're supposed to test stuff like that before using human subject.

[fattubbashit]

Originally Posted by kellyhound ↗

Fuck what an idiot

Cmon KH, decades and decades and decades B4 the base jumper. An under gunned visionary yes, a passionate pioneer,yes . An idiot ? No !

[Eat Shit And Die]

Franz Reichelt, also known as Frantz Reichelt or François Reichelt (1879 – February 4, 1912), was an Austrian-born French tailor, inventor and parachuting pioneer, now sometimes referred to as the Flying Tailor, who is remembered for jumping to his death from the Eiffel Tower while testing a wearable parachute of his own design. Reichelt had become fixated on developing a suit for aviators that would convert into a parachute and allow them to survive a fall should they be forced to leave their aircraft. Initial experiments conducted with dummies dropped from the fifth floor of his apartment building had been successful, but he was unable to replicate those early successes with any of his subsequent designs.

Believing that the lack of a suitably high test platform was partially to blame for his failures, Reichelt repeatedly petitioned the Parisian Prefecture of Police for permission to conduct a test from the Eiffel Tower. He was finally granted permission in early 1912, but when he arrived at the tower on February 4 he made it clear that he intended to jump himself rather than conduct an experiment with dummies. Despite attempts by his friends and spectators to dissuade him, he jumped from the first platform of the tower wearing his invention. The parachute failed to deploy and he crashed into the icy ground at the foot of the tower. Although it was clear that the fall had killed him, he was taken to a nearby hospital where he was officially pronounced dead. The next day, newspapers were full of the story of the reckless inventor and his fatal jump – many included pictures of the fall taken by press photographers who had gathered to witness Reichelt's experiment – and a film documenting the jump appeared in newsreels.

[MrCorpse]

Way to go Franz!

[FunkPumpkin]

Regarding the plume that resulted when he impacted, was that dust from his cloak or was it his insides becoming outsides?