That's a long way since the inventor of the parachute Frenchman Andre-Jacques Garnerin used a canvas canopy in a small basket to drop from beneath a hot air balloon in 1797.

这距离1797年发明降落伞的法国人安德烈雅克·加内林用一个装在小篮子里的帆布罩棚从热气球上跳伞已过去许久。