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    1. Khalid has his parachute on


    2. Russ pulls John out of his seat to help him put his parachute on


    3. Russ stands, grabs John by the collar, yanks him to his feet, begins to help him put on the remaining parachute


    4. John drifts silently through the sky beneath a big white parachute


    5. He sees another parachute far below but can’t make out who it is


    6. of the billowing parachute in his rheumy cornered eye


    7. To dream that you are in a parachute represents a protective force over you


    8. It was a lunge, just as if he were a free-jumper with a parachute, for the second or so he could be seen


    9. Falling towards terra-firma was something akin to the initial free fall of a parachute jump, except there would be no parachute


    10. " (They were the only policemen who parachute jumped static and free fall, including HALO and HAHO, but then that was only expected, them being mad to begin with

    11. If you do not know the difference between tactical and strategic, but let me give you an example that an Army Colonel once gave me: “It seems that a young soldier had decided that paratrooper’s wings had a special effect on the ladies, and thus he volunteered for the elite Army Parachute Battalion


    12. When he received his parachute wings, after much blood, sweat, and no doubt tears, he encountered a young lady taking an appreciative interest in him at a hotel


    13. Since they were rather good mechanics according to themselves (they were indeed - fixed their big six Cortina by this time) they offered their services and found her and her Army second lieutenant boyfriend (a hard as nails second lieutenant of the Parachute Battalion that they knew could not be dominated by them) waiting for them to change the flat tyre


    14. So I decided the parachute would have benefited me more but luckily we always landed and had no cause to become long haired liberals to complain about their silly jokes


    15. It had the same status as parachute wings in the Army


    16. I was so grateful not to be wearing a skirt or a dress – it probably would’ve taken off with the skirt acting as a parachute


    17. The lack of parachutes forced each soldier to recover his parachute for the next jump which is also unique in a way and part of the logical planning


    18. They made their reputation as crack light infantry once on the ground whether by parachute or helicopter and considered themselves rightly to be an elite force as do all paratroopers


    19. Besides Special Forces no black man was parachute trained which I think was a mistake


    20. Some of the individual members because of their Special Forces (Army or Police) or prior military service backgrounds would have had parachute training but as a unit they were never part of the airborne community and never operated as one either

    21. Thus any parachute wings you see on the Internet are fakes


    22. I thought he was going for you, but he jumped out of the plane with his parachute


    23. It felt empowering to the point of just wanting to do crazy stuff for fun, like jumping off a plane without a parachute, going lava-boating, firing myself from a howitzer, or visiting an Asian country and trying the local cuisine


    24. “They’re going to shoot the first one of us that jumps out in a parachute,” he blurted


    25. The price of a parachute was quite high, and the Brass thought we would jump out in a panic


    26. Right about now, I’ll bet he wished he had a parachute


    27. He was watching his footing - one mistake and he would be freefalling to the valley below, without a parachute


    28. Off the topic a bit – did you know you don’t have to have a parachute when you go skydiving? It’s true! You only need a parachute when you want to skydive more than once…


    29. Parachute: Able to overcome trials and tribulations


    30. The Caucasian pilot in his early thirties is holding on tightly to his parachute with both hands and staring into the clouds as if he saw a ghost

    31. parachute unfolded from the back of the plane, catching the cold,


    32. However, the survival vest and bulky parachute he wore on his back cramped his space in the narrow back seat just as the shoulder harness cramped his mobility


    33. Travers had instructed him to sit on the thick vest because the parachute harness wouldn't fit over its bulk


    34. Not only control, but own all the air below that altitude to include close air support, transports for aerial resupply--be it by landing or by parachute, and reconnaissance


    35. Lastly, they heard an air battle high up and saw a stick figure in a parachute plummet into the jungle to the north in an area they had been specifically briefed was free of enemy movement


    36. Mogk swam to the surviving pilot who was in hypothermia and tangled in his parachute


    37. Suffering injury and hypothermia herself, Petty Officer Mogk somehow managed to untangle the semi-conscious aviator from his parachute, and get him back into the helicopter


    38. The missiles burst and slowly drop by parachute down to the ground


    39. parachute was hung from the ceiling with the light above it


    40. He was intrigued by it, so much so, that he made a parachute out of a Handkerchief and some string

    41. infrared goggles, and saw his parachute unfold against the black, moonless


    42. Before the barge had settled into the water, David resolved to figure out how to attach a parachute to the barge so it dropped right side up


    43. low hill and watched the Swordsman Marine transports parachute into the ocean


    44. Just the right sort of cover that you needed to take up your flight and to parachute down in


    45. I undertook strenuous training to get my body fit so that I could parachute down into the most remotest of places


    46. parachute on it, and we don’t even have one for us on the copter?”


    47. “Hold it, Chip! You mean to tell me that your „pretend daddy" just so happened to give you a toy parachute that was the correct size and configuration to be used for bailing out of the plane


    48. None of the passengers or crew had a parachute, save my son Chip


    49. He had to bail out of the plane using his kitty parachute


    50. One thing that you can do is to determine what you want, what do you desire, this can be as important as acknowledging your higher self and working for a deeper understanding or as simply as granting your curiosity the opportunity to jump from an airplane with a parachute














































    1. Then, when enough is known and the enough soldiers are twenty one years of age, even if it takes generations, using the technology of the Al-Harron, thousands of troops are parachuted in from stealth aircraft to secure the Kassikan complex


    2. The other interesting story about Devil’s Tower is that of George Hopkins, who, in 1941, parachuted onto the top of the monument as part of a $50 bet


    3. this massive effort, it has now become clear, was the „social service industry" parachuted in from outside


    4. Slowly at first he describe how they had parachuted in and landed exactly as they had planned back in the barracks, but it was as they had met with their contacts that they came under attack


    5. Soon after as they sat in comfort, they told of the atrocities which had befallen them since the night of the raid when they had picked William from the beach where they had parachuted in


    6. The Med ships inserted the Marines and first construction crews who safely parachuted to the ground


    7. They parachuted to a plateau that gave them a commanding view for a hundred kilometers in any direction


    8. The planet’s atmosphere was thin, but not so thin that troops and equipment could not be parachuted to the surface from space


    9. Mechanized armor and artillery parachuted to the surface


    10. ‘’I didn’t see for myself, but I was told that nobody parachuted out, miss

    11. We could have helicoptered or parachuted forces to block his retreat


    12. � Later in the day she gave us early warning of a second raid, thus saving many lives, then ran out in her car to capture two Germans who parachuted out


    13. ‘’How, General? Our forces were able to capture a total of fourteen enemy aviators after they parachuted out, three of them right over Suwon Airfield


    14. A Squadron of SAS was parachuted into France on 21st June 1944, others soon followed to establish bases behind enemy lines


    15. She spent a few minutes informing him of what had happened in and over Da Nang and then asked for the help of his Marines in rounding up the Soviet pilots that had parachuted out in the area


    16. Now at the controls of the wounded heavy aircraft, she watched anxiously as 26 crewmembers parachuted out one by one over the captured airbase of Istre-Le Tubé


    17. "A Navy SEAL parachuted aboard and he took no prisoners whilst liberating us


    18. He was parachuted in to Switzerland on Saturday, and only got home for some rest last night after spending all day yesterday in here


    19. “We parachuted in together, and got you out


    20. It wasn’t even Dusty she had been parachuted in to Switzerland to help

    21. “When I was posted here, I thought I was in for a quieter life behind a desk, planning things, and that unarmed combat and being parachuted in to icy wastes up mountains, and stuff like that, was all behind me,”


    22. rumour was circulated that you parachuted to safety long before


    23. "It’s one of those flying things that attacked us when we parachuted!"


    24. “General, I am afraid that some of their men have parachuted out somewhere over


    25. For them, I had appeared as if off another planet, parachuted


    26. They had parachuted in soldiers and there had been hand-to-hand fighting in the streets


    27. * As Halloran parachuted over Tokyo, the Zero that had shot him down sped toward him, and Halloran was certain that he was going to be strafed, as so many falling airmen were


    28. If he had parachuted into his thoughts now not knowing the context, he would have assumed he was seeing a day when he was just coming out of a long, long fever


    1. He says to put on our parachutes!


    2. Russ smiles, yanks Khalid around so that his back is to him, puts one of the parachutes on him, yanks him around to face him, begins to strap it into place


    3. Their parachutes opened and they glided downward towards the direction of the Queens Hold


    4. As he and his men entered thru the large gate they saw the Scathers parachutes open, it was going to be a nasty fight


    5. The lack of parachutes forced each soldier to recover his parachute for the next jump which is also unique in a way and part of the logical planning


    6. That’s why the German fliegers were beginning to use parachutes


    7. Basically I told the men to ignore parachutes


    8. “We have requested parachutes, but haven’t yet received them,” I reminded them all


    9. Why should I let him live? We had no parachutes


    10. Would you like to know the truth? We’ve asked for parachutes, many times, and we have been refused,” I told Bert

    11. While our boys didn’t have parachutes, the Fritzies did


    12. “And then we fly on to Switzerland; and then we all jump out in the parachutes provided to us, courtesy of the Government of Belgium


    13. “Lieutenant-Colonel Tucker and Prince Sakahaji tested the parachutes last Saturday, as I’m sure all of you are aware


    14. We have full confidence in the parachutes, and you have all seen the Boche use them successfully


    15. The stealth bomber pilot ejects from his aircraft and parachutes towards the ocean


    16. The force of the parachutes opening up and zero gravity is propelling the pilots straight into the sky,’ Jaden says


    17. Immediately, ten large parachutes opened at the top of the ship, and a distress signal was issued to all the ships of Love


    18. He had seen a war film in which troops were jumping from aeroplanes and opening their parachutes


    19. At the last possible second, Brownie blasted the crew escape module away from the rest of the shuttle, hoping that they had enough inertia to land in the water and enough height that the parachutes might work


    20. They had just put on last their parachutes when the telephone on the desk of the operations room rang

    21. There would be some compensation for early termination of contracts but no golden parachutes in any contract breaks


    22. � They hid their parachutes before splitting up, with the majority heading for the objective while six men stayed in the clearing


    23. � Walking away from the colonel, he saw the American secretary of war talking to Brigadier Walker while pointing at the parachutes, with Walker taking notes frantically


    24. � Touchdown was incredibly smooth compared to that of standard military parachutes, the soldiers actually hitting the ground running towards the targets and unclipping their parachutes in quick motions


    25. � A dozen enlisted men waiting on the sidelines ran up and retrieved the parachutes while the five soldiers of the demonstration team, wearing full battle gear, took hold of their rifles and started firing short bursts while on the run


    26. Sprinting to the nearest trench, he jumped in besides the two soldiers standing in it just before the mortar illuminating bombs lit up the sky, drifting under their parachutes


    27. He had seen a good twenty planes fall from the sky, plus many parachutes deploy, without being able to say which ones were Soviet or American


    28. She had already been able to take some sensational pictures of the raid from the cockpit of the YC-10 and had even photographed the huge cloud of smoke and dust caused by the bombardment, but had been ordered back to her seat after she had photographed two parachutes opening over the old Forbidden City


    29. It was eighty thousand years ago a corporal in the Federation armada volunteered to land on Janus V by means of a space pod hanging from parachutes


    30. YOU WILL ALL GET IN TURN YOUR PARACHUTES AND DON THEM, IN CASE WE HAVE TO BAIL OUT

    31. There were parachutes at the far wall


    32. Parachutes are coming down in the sky over nearby Fort


    33. I certainly would not want to ban planes and parachutes


    34. “This thing is equipped with parachutes, right?”


    35. to open their parachutes, and so on---this kind of information helps


    36. He went over to the stack of about a dozen parachutes and pushed them out into open space


    37. He saw three parachutes lying in the field nearby along with a large canvas bag and another parachute at the far end of the field hanging from a tree


    38. Now you throw this lot out without parachutes


    39. That is why using parachutes


    40. That is why using parachutes slows the falling process of falling objects down because falling is a ratio between solids and liquids

    41. In the lost heretical Gospel of the Evianites, the divine Christ parachutes down from heaven, enters the body of Jesus, does his mischief, and then opts out and goes back up to heaven


    42. parachutes and even gliders


    43. parachutes?” asked one of her gang


    44. Most nights the enemy would shoot pistol flares called ‘very lights’ over the trenches, short-lived stars suspended in the air from parachutes, meant to illuminate possible targets for snipers


    45. What if they were to tie two parachutes to the rear of the plane, pitch them out of the waist windows at touchdown, and pull the rip cords? No one had ever tried to stop a bomber in this manner


    46. * Eight months later, Charlie Pratte became the first pilot to stop a B-24 with parachutes


    47. Touching down at a scorching 140 miles per hour, Pratte ordered his men to deploy three parachutes


    48. With the parachutes open behind it, the plane shot off the end of the runway and onto the beach before stopping just short of the ocean


    49. Erica Jong followed Isadora Wing through three additional novels, How to Save Your Own Life, Parachutes & Kisses, and Any Woman’s Blues


    50. Instead of a 32 percent premium’s being paid to OPMI investors (assuming that old XYZ was liquidated or that Newco had purchased XYZ common stocks rather than XYZ net assets), perhaps only a 20 percent premium was paid, with the missing 12 percent going to XYZ management and control people as bonuses and parachutes





    1. It is worse than parachuting, because you can see the bottom up close


    2. He can see all the jet fighters floating in different directions and some parachuting out


    3. Pilots are parachuting towards the water in all directions around him


    4. Matthew had developed a new obsession, that of being fascinated with parachuting


    5. Galer still lost two of his WILDCATs to the ZEROs, with only one pilot parachuting out, while shooting down himself one of the Japanese, with one of his pilots destroying a second ZERO


    6. � Parachuting at night from high altitude, she landed on the roof of the prison where the aircrews were interrogated and succeeded in giving access to a platoon of Royal Commandos, personally killing a number of German soldiers in the process


    7. ����������� �By jove!� They are parachuting in


    8. “Don’t worry about me, Master Sergeant: this is my third war and also the second time I end up parachuting over a surrounded friendly position


    9. After initial disappointments, it was decided to abandon the idea of parachuting behind enemy lines and to increase mobility, equip the SAS with jeeps, each armed with 4 machine guns


    10. I have splashed three Arado 234 jet bombers off Bristol, with one enemy pilot parachuting out

    11. As we rolled on through the Balkan mountains, beautiful wooded hillsides fought with buses and lorries chuffing out foul fumes into our lungs and crazed insects parachuting down our backs, stabbing us with dozens of tiny poison umbrellas


    12. “It's amazing how he doesn't freak out about his side job, which is way more dangerous than parachuting out of a plane


    13. He already knew where we would be parachuting to


    14. Perhaps if you had cheated death by parachuting out of a burning aircraft, it would be more than a little comforting to be reunited with the debris that survived an impact with the ground


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    Synonyms for "parachute"

    chute parachute jump

    "parachute" definitions

    rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall


    jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute