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During 1940, GQ and Irvin collaborated on the X-Type parachute assembly, which provided a safe and reliable static line assembly for paratroopers. This model was mass-produced throughout the rest of the Second World War , being used by both aircrews and airborne forces alike, and for several decades after the war's end. [ 4 ]
Leslie Leroy Irvin (September 10, 1895 – October 9, 1966) was a stunt-man for the fledgling Californian film industry. Flying in balloons, he performed using trapeze acrobatics and parachute descents.
Leslie Irvin may refer to: Leslie L. Irvin (1895–1966), parachutist who made the first free-fall parachute jump Leslie Irvin (serial killer) (1924–1983), serial killer active in the Midwest in the early 1950s
After Irvin lost a patent dispute to Floyd Smith with zero compensation due to US Army parachute orders, the US Government compensated Smith with $3500 to transfer his patent to Irvin's company. [3] Floyd's original 1919 ripcord parachute is on display at the Air Force Museum at Dayton, Ohio. [16] Smith was issued a total of 33 patents. [14]
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The club was founded by Leslie Irvin of the Irvin Airchute Company of Canada in 1922. (Though Leslie Irvin is credited with inventing the first free-fall parachute in 1919, parachutes stored in canisters had saved the lives of observers in balloons and several German and Austro-Hungarian pilots of disabled military aircraft in the First World War. [2])
Edward Lincoln Hoffman (1884–1970) was a United States Army Air Service (USAAS) pilot, officer and Engineering Division Chief at McCook Field.With no parachute experience, he formed a team that included aviation pioneers Leslie Irvin and James Floyd Smith which developed the first modern parachute.
Irvin became the first person to make a premeditated free-fall parachute jump from an airplane. An early brochure of the Irvin Air Chute Company credits William O'Connor as having become, on 24 August 1920, at McCook Field near Dayton, Ohio, the first person to be saved by an Irvin parachute. [39]