It also was featured heavily in the Oscar-nominated Little Fugitive (1953).
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Ike Owens served in the Royal Air Force as a Physical Training Instructor and as a Parachute Jump Instructor during the second world war at RAF Ringway near Manchester.
In 1797, Parc Monceau was the site of the first silk parachute jump, when André-Jacques Garnerin jumped from a Montgolfier hot air balloon, landing in the park where a large crowd was gathered.
He had seen André-Jacques Garnerin make the first parachute jump in England in 1802 (the first modern parachute jump had been carried out in 1785 by Jean-Pierre Blanchard) and been inspired to develop an improved design after reading Sir George Cayley's paper On Aerial Navigation.