In 1998 Patrick fell to his death in Hawaii during a skydive with Adrian Nicholas using the wingsuit while testing a modification to his parachute container; his death is attributed to a rigging error he made while making the modification.
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The samples of explosive brought to the U . S . by the Tizard Mission had already been packaged by the SOE ready for dropping via parachute container to the French Resistance and were therefore labelled in French, as " Explosif Plastique ".
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Standard skydiving parachute systems are not designed for this situation, so BASE jumpers often use specially designed harnesses and parachute containers, with extra large pilot chutes, and many jump with only one parachute, since there would be little time to utilize a reserve parachute.
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"' Automatic activation device "'( "'AAD "') in skydiving terminology refers to an electronic-pyrotechnic or mechanical device that automatically opens the main or reserve parachute container at a preset altitude or after a preset time.
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There is film of great parades and receptions and there are accounts, oral and on film, of disasters : a cosmonaut and his redesigned space capsule reduced on re-entry to smoking rubble because the size of the parachute container was not increased when the parachute size was; the parachute never deployed.
