Silk Parachute

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When the D-Day invasion came, paratroopers cut their way out of their jump harnesses and left thousands of deployed chutes strewn throughout Normandy. A patent was granted in 1911 to the Italian inventor Pino for a flexible parachute, including a pilot chute. It doesn't help that I have little interest in either lacrosse or golf, but McPhee used to be able to hold my interest in even things that I wouldn't be inclined to read about.

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It will include a period of freefall before the parachute is deployed to slow the descent rate to about 1,000ft (305m) per minute for a safe landing. The others were vast in their scope and incisive in their dissection of topics but just didn't hit as hard as the first. In thisway, if tear is started, it follows along the direction of a yarn to the seamwhere the resistance is sufficient to prevent further rupture.Not until the development of the ten-megabyte hard disk would the world ever know such a fabulous toy. Currently, each astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) uses about 11 liters (3 gallons) of water daily. Their construction—lightweight polyester, nylon, and Kevlar with strips of fabric arrayed in "ribbon" or "pie-crust" designs and large gaps to allow the passage of air—makes them the most heavy-duty chutes in the solar system.

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He bailed out over central France, after his seven crewmates and moments before their B-24 Liberator exploded in the sky. Kotelnikov took his field-tested design to the Central Engineering Department of the War Ministry, which promptly –and repeatedly– refused to put his design into production. S. Open are not the most daring of topics, McPhee deserves credit for writing about what he understands, and his depth of knowledge is unassailable. In this way, McPhee not only makes an interesting piece of writing, but actually sparks interest in the topic itself.In "Season on the Chalk," he hops about from place to place in England and France with only the loosest of transitions; he lards "Spin Right and Shoot Left" with lists and catalogs, such as the roster of fifty-three colleges that sent coaches to an exhibition of potential varsity lacrosse players; his piece on the U. At LaGuardia, she accompanied me to the observation deck and stood there in the icy wind for at least an hour, maybe two, while I, spellbound, watched the DC-3s coming in .

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Clothshould possess a high resistance to the continuation of a tear already started,whereas breaking strength always applies to the simultaneous breaking of systemof yarns. If you're not a marathoner, or such, you can sit on the sofa, drink the bee spit, and are guaranteed to lose weight. Allegedly, I went up the street with the sandwich in my hand and buried it in a snowbank in front of Dr.

My suggestion is that the best way to approach Silk Parachute is to take it out of the library, and open it expecting to read and enjoy about half of it. Silk Parachute is a collection of random essays from the New Yorker, and they are each insularly delightful, but do not really make an impression as a whole, unless you are student of McPhee's style.