Jumping out of a moving plane is not as revolutionary as it was 600 years ago when Renaissance inventors started experimenting with the parachute.

从一个移动中的飞机中跳出来可不像600年前文艺复兴发明家们开始测试降落伞那样具有革命意义。

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When his parachute failed, he thought he was a goner.

当他的降落伞失灵时，他想他算完了。

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When he was not jumping with a parachute, he was being taught how to fly by pilots in the air show. But he could not fly as often as he liked.

当他不用降落伞往下跳时，他向飞行员学习如何在空中飞行，但他并不能总是如他所喜欢的那样飞行。

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The Queen, who attended with the Duke of Edinburgh, featured with Daniel Craig as James Bond at London 2012 - when she appeared to parachute from a helicopter.

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In 1999, he set the world record for the highest parachute jump from a building when he jumped from the Petronas Towers in Kaula Lumpur, Malaysia.

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About half the rockets suffer some kind of catastrophic failure in the air, usually when a nose cone fails to separate properly or the parachute doesn't deploy.

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