Silk Parachute

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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. Warming The Jump Seat" shows the author germinating the idea for a book about his experiences in a prep school from his experience riding with his coach in the jumpseat of a car. Some generals thought the parachute would make pilots more apt to ditch a battle-damaged aircraft than to "ride it out. Parachute’ is a French word derived from the Latin ‘para’ which means ‘against’, and ‘chute’ which is French for ‘fall’. According to Connecticut History, the chemical corporation worked with the Pioneer Parachute Company and the Cheney Brothers Company, a silkmaker, to build a better ‘chute.

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Also really pleasing: an essay about unusual foods, an essay about fact-checking that's in large part a paean to fact-checkers. When the D-Day invasion came, paratroopers cut their way out of their jump harnesses and left thousands of deployed chutes strewn throughout Normandy.Granted, even I didn't want to know as much about the Swiss army as McPhee decided to tell his New Yorker readers.

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But they proved their worth and were the basis for experiments in design that began immediately after the war – and have continued ever since. I particularly loved “Check Points” for the behind-the-scenes look at what happens to get his pieces out, and the acknowledgment of the fact checkers that make his work possible.In this way, McPhee not only makes an interesting piece of writing, but actually sparks interest in the topic itself.

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Like all the John McPhee works I have read before, I got far more from each essay than the essay’s title might suggest I would. You follow him down and down through a gallery system, and if you’ve ever been in a salt mine the place reminds you of a salt mine. Now, in the 21st century, parachuting forms the largest internationally-represented aeronautical sport within the World Air Sports Federation, the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI).The brief, brilliant essay “Silk Parachute,” which first appeared in The New Yorker a decade ago, has become John McPhee’s most anthologized piece of writing. After surface telephone lines were destroyed by German bombs, a line was run through the grotten keeping connections open with Belgium and northern France. On the chalk near the mosasaur: a 1948 drawing of the Dutch royal family, the present queen, Beatrix, as a princess ten years old. The Japanese giant hornet "flies about a hundred kilometers a day ingesting but not digesting small insects, which it carries home in globular form to feed its larvae.

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The money went towards constructing the North Woolwich Spitfire which went on to be used in the war. The new T-11 chutes have been shown to decrease spinning and to reduce the rate of descent by 30 percent compared with the circular T-10 chutes, resulting in lower landing injury rates for jumpers. S. Open golf championship, and a season in Europe “on the chalk” from the downs and sea cliffs of England to the Maas valley in the Netherlands and the champagne country of northern France.John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. 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. He has a marvelous way of leading the reader patiently down into the weeds of whatever topic he has chosen, and once he is down there, teaching you something. 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.