Pankaj Kapur

I was required to jump from a parachute into a lake and for this I was dangled in the air 100 feet above the ground with the help of a harness. It was scary in the beginning as I had never attempted such a thing before.

Indian Actor

Francis Ford Coppola

When that happens - when risk is taken and the filmmakers dive into the subject matter without a parachute - very often what you get it something with those qualities that make it age well with the public.

American Director

Sally Ride

The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.

American Astronaut

Nancy Gibbs

When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.

American Journalist

Victoria Pendleton

I love sport and will do just about anything. Someone said they'd had a go at skiing off a mountain with a parachute, and that sounds great!

British Athlete

Benny Hill

Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.

English Comedian

Henry Spencer

Testing a parachute drop of a heavy object is not simple.

Canadian Scientist

Thomas Dewar

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

Scottish Businessman

Zora Neale Hurston

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

American Dramatist

William Stafford

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

American Poet

Parachute is often related to safety and rescue in risky situations.

Safety Context

While common in skydiving, parachutes are used in various other scenarios like space missions.

Not Just Skydiving

Parachutes can be made of different materials, not just cloth.

Not Always Cloth

As a verb, 'parachute' specifically means the act of jumping with a parachute.

Action Specific

Parachuting is commonly associated with military operations and training.

Military Associations

Parachuting can also be a sport or recreational activity, not just military.

Recreational Activity

 that would do this job, or someone that will make one. Something revolutionary happened a little while ago, at the same facility. That's the prototype of the parachute. I've now had them custom make one, the only one of its kind in the world. And that's the only suit of its kind in the world. It was made by a Russian that's designed

Steve Truglia: A leap...

 the reserve parachute is going to open because of an automatic opening device. The suit itself can protect me from the cold. This area in the front here has thermal protection. It will actually heat water that will wrap around my body. It has two redundant oxygen tanks. Even if I was to get a quarter-inch hole in this suit,

I leapt from the...

 and then you go to put on your parachute and a buddy helps you. And you put on the T-10 parachute. And you're very careful how you put the straps, particularly the leg straps because they go between your legs. And then you put on your reserve, and then you put on your heavy rucksack. And then a jumpmaster comes,

Stanley McChrystal:...

 squirts out of the pulmonary artery. The ventricular valves, called the tricuspid in the right ventricle and the mitral in the left, can be seen through the clear water opening and closing like parachutes as the ventricle is rhythmically squeezed. This flow of water mimics the flow of blood in life.

How the heart actually...

 with my parachute, looking at the swirling clouds below, trying to pluck up my courage to jump into the North Sea, which -- and it was a very, very, very lonely few moments. But, anyway, we managed to survive it. Did you jump? Or it came down in the end?

Life at 30,000 feet PIPE...

 praised his experienced friend will save himself as I could see him that his working on the situation trying to better a situation but obviously he couldn't michael has one last chance aborting his malfunctioned parachute and triggering the reserve

The Indestructibles -...

 of scientific thinking - that solutions must recognize the limitations of current technology in order to advance it. Sometimes this progress is iterative, as in, "How can I make a better parachute to land my rover?" And sometimes, it's innovative,

The power of creative...

 froze for second like whoa with a parachute off balance Shamus spins out of control it was the most gut-wrenching sickening feeling of my entire life she pulls a tab to release the main chute

Parachute Malfunction PIPE...

 video of surface of Mars taken by the Marti imager strapped to the world's largest extra s triol rover hanging underneath the largest supersonic parachute ever built two and a half

To Mars and back, a...

 to slow their descent they use their huge webbed feet as parachutes