The Story of Franz Reichelt | A Short Documentary | Fascinating Horror

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"On the 4th of February, 1912, tailor Franz Reichelt arrived at the foot of the Eiffel Tower in a car, accompanied by a few close friends..."
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:37 - Background
04:57 - The Eiffel Tower Jump
07:19 - The Aftermath
MUSIC:
► "Glass Pond" by Public Memory
SOURCES:
► "L'inventeur d'un parachute se lance de la tour Eiffel et s'ecrase sur le sol" published by Le Petit Parisien, February 1912. Available via: gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt...
► "L'inventeur Reichelt s'est tue hier" published by Le Petit Journal, February 1912. Available via: gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt...
► "Experience tragique" published by Le Matin, February 1912. Available via: gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt...
► "Chute mortelle d'un inventeur de parachute" published by Le Temps, February 1912. Available via: gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt...
► "The Silken Canopy: History of the Parachute" by John Lucas, published by Airlife Publishing, June 1997. Link: www.google.co.uk/books/editio...
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6 авг 2024

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@jasper3042 Год назад

I think the fact that he had a heart attack on the way down gives us some insight into how quickly he realized how badly this was going to end. Yikes, poor fellow.

@nathanlong8295 Год назад

The old days right?

@cainprescott4937 Год назад

It's like he realized as soon as he jumped that his parachute would not save his life but would rather extend his death, at which point his heart suffered a shock-induced heart attack. If that knocked him out, it would've been a mercy, but if it didn't, then for a few seconds he would've been in both mental AND physical pain before he hit the ground and abruptly ceased to be.

@moonytheloony6516 Год назад

That and the fact that he didn't have someone at the base of the tower with a Wet-vac to clean up his mess, which is technically littering...which is a fine and possible jail time...I'd have a heart attack to if I realized that on the way down...fines are expensive and jail time is unpleasant.

@141poolplayer Год назад

I actually find that hard to believe. I've got to call bullshit.

@sherimcdaniel3491 Год назад

@@moonytheloony6516 Well said, Moony!! You are, quite likely, right.

@lcolsen22 Год назад

You're the first person I've seen that treated this man's death with respect and for that you have mine.

@get2dachoppa249 Год назад

Then you should listen to the Cautionary Tales podcast episode of this very incident from 2022.

@lcolsen22 Год назад

@@get2dachoppa249 I'll take a look. Thanks for the recommendation :)

@sekhmara8590 Год назад

This channel is always very respectful regarding all the disasters they cover. One of my favorite things about it.

@royriley6282 Год назад

Very objective and fact based channel. However doesn't stop me from calling the guy what he was: a moron. We meet people all the time in life who have inflated opinions of their intelligence and are incapable of listening to others. They are almost universally disliked, but apparently when their stupidity ends in their death, we must now treat them with respect. An odd human superstition. You may keep it.

@jankaant Год назад

Exactly ! He could have shown the video of the jump but he didn t . That shows the respect and delicacy .

@victoriaeads6126 Год назад

Considering the time and place, if Reichelt hadn't jumped, someone else probably would have. It feels like one of those nearly inevitable historical moments, especially considering the push at the time to succeed in inventing a practical parachute.

@casbyness Год назад

My great grandmother from my dad's side, and my grandmother from my mother's side, were both rescued from death by their respective older sisters, who were killed in the act of those rescues. If either of those extremely unlikely events hadn't occurred, my entire family line would not exist. Reichelt's death could indeed have not only prevented the demise of some other random inventor, but also all the good that then came from that person's survival. We'll never know.

@LadyVoldemort Год назад

@@casbyness I like the way you think. 👍❤

@godzilla928 Год назад

Lol

@godzilla928 Год назад

@@casbyness xd

@Hanz13171 Год назад

"it's a cannon event"

@Zenneuer Год назад

Since this story is so depressing, I'd like to imagine an alternate universe version where his parachute also fails but he was able to glide to safety using his magnificent mustache, Dumbo the elephant style. This then start a new age of mustache-powered aviation.

@frogosplayer1 Год назад

This is so absurd it caught me off guard but I love it 😂

@sazzlepop321 Год назад

Love this

@adamolupin Год назад

My immediate thought was of the ends of his mustache turning into propellers like Yosemite Sam.

@rainey1987 Год назад

Everything everywhere all at once fully supports this idea, and it most definitely happened in an alternate universe

@RobotacularRoBob Год назад

@@rainey1987 The idea of a multiverse where anything and everything happens is preposterous. It doesn’t account for realism and the laws of the universe

@sunshineinabag1451 Год назад

The only good thing about having insomnia is catching a new Fascinating Horror upload at 4:15 am

@JDLupus Год назад

I sometimes wonder whether watching these at those times are contributing to the insomnia!

@Penuts911 Год назад

east coast guy how’s the weather

@Jabba1625 Год назад

@@JDLupus Nah its more the stress of trying to survive and pay the bills for me.

@lilacDaisy111 Год назад

I hope you have a blue-blocker on your screen, or you'll never get to sleep

@davidmusiyenko4158 Год назад

No idea why I just woke up at 3am to watch this video.

@coloradohikertrash9958 Год назад

There's the strong possibility this was the first time a human death was ever captured on film. Strange thing to think about in these times...

@matgeezer2094 Год назад

That's an interesting thought you might be right. The first in all our history

@richardhunter132 Год назад

it's rare to see deaths on film at all. the only thing I can think of is when they show some disaster and you know that people are being killed, but you never actually see the people

@31webseries Год назад

@@richardhunter132 They capture the deaths, they just don't show them.

@maxonite Год назад

@@richardhunter132 I mean they did record quite a lot of the World Wars didn’t they

@charlievanvlijmen1063 Год назад

Factory accidents are commonly caught on camera too, often in countries with less worker safety

@culturebreath369 Год назад

Shout out to the guard giving it one last attempt to stop him. 💪 Good heart on that one.

@pinkyuzu Год назад

Yeah, I thought so too.

@culturebreath369 Год назад

@@pinkyuzu You don't normally hear those details even if they happened. Especially these days. We film eachother die within feet of eachother.

@chinchilla6547 Год назад

I think this is a great example of the sunk cost fallacy as well. People everywhere telling him not to continue and him literally breaking bones but this was the one thing he’s worked on for years so it’ll work if I get a chance in Paris.

@jamessimms415 Год назад

Evil Knievel had the same problem

@sleeming88 Год назад

It's important to understand the context behind Reichelt's actions in order to fully understand his reasoning. Paris during the Belle Epoque/Edwardian era was a magnet for all sorts of inventors, pioneers and cranks. If you wanted to make a name for yourself then Paris was the place to be and there'd be no shortage of people to encourage you. There's little wonder he felt so confident.

@dawnstorm9768 Год назад

Thank you for the background info.

@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley Год назад

Given the recent build of thr Eiffel Tower, I could surmise as much, but his inability to see that there could be any defects to his inventiom was the definition of stubborn. He should've at least had something to brace his fall. Especially as he must've been rather scared and had a heart attack on the way down (probably in the milliseconds it took to realize his parachute suit didn't work).

@aJazzcat Год назад

I was wondering if he possibly was convinced that death was better than failure

@Kai-ky6tf Год назад

Bro was just crazy

@jarrodbarker5050 Год назад

It's not important. The past doesn't exist. - Science

@Fallassa Год назад

Reichelt was also incredibly passionate about *safety* and protecting the people who would, hypothetically, use his inventions. A huge motivating factor in his work to design a parachute suit was his desire to create a piece of safety equipment that would protect people’s lives. I deeply respect his desire to do good and his ingenuity, even though he ended up dying due to his invention.

@coconutsmarties Год назад

He ended up dying due to his spectacular arrogance, not his invention.

@Slikx666 Год назад

I didn't know about the heart attack. But he tried to help people and that's worth some respect from us.

@gurtelrosen9801 Год назад

he did it for the money.

@erickearnes9644 11 месяцев назад

There is that 5 letter cuss word again!👿🤑 Money 🤑(Greed ) that is the root of all evil 👿👿!!!

@Fighter4Street 6 месяцев назад

Do you ever wonder how they could tell he had a heart attack?

@Slikx666 6 месяцев назад

@@Fighter4Street I think it involves good grades at school, collage or university and then experience. That's about all I can think of. 🧐

@siderth9035 6 месяцев назад

@@Fighter4Street Rien ne permet d'affirmer qu'il est mort d'une crise cardiaque. On a seulement constaté son décès, rien de plus car aucune autopsie n'a été réalisée.

@hawaiidispenser Год назад

It's enlightening to hear the details that led up to the jump. When you first hear about the story, you get this impression that no one tried to stop him or that no one cared about safety back then, but this video shows that wasn't entirely true.

@trevormillar1576 Год назад

Ad a security guard myself, I can assure you, this is not the stupidest person a security guard has had to deal with.

@ClaimOfRightMuso Год назад

Do tell.

@fullshark09 Год назад

As a regular civilian, an average security guard/bouncer is way dumber than this guy.

@godzilla928 Год назад

@@fullshark09 indeed xd

@gurtelrosen9801 Год назад

@@fullshark09 I doubt it. None of them would have jumped.

@SaraNightfire1 9 месяцев назад

As a person who had to take business law and see how liability works and how lawsuits can come from anything. Yeah, I know what you’re saying.

@RelicCipher Год назад

There's something that's going to stick with me about learning that he had a heart attack on the way down... I can't help but wonder what caused it, the shock of the fall itself, or the horrific realization that his invention failed, and it was too late to back off. Maybe a mix of both. Sure you can argue the man was a fool, but it is still kinda sad to think that his life had to end in such a scary way.

@TheIndifferentGamer Год назад

"I intend to prove the worth of my invention" Mission accomplished I guess.

@KitsuNerezza Год назад

Mission failed successfully.

@Gamble661 Год назад

@@Horizon429 Well, he did achieve fame I guess. The price of it was a bit steep though...

@Richard-zc1cj Год назад

He was a early Darwin award winner.

@tommyvercetti891 Год назад

💀👍

@Oriana_leung Год назад

🤣

@damonroberts7372 Год назад

“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.” - W.C. Fields

@eywine.7762 Год назад

That's one of my favorite quotes.

@FrankNFurter1000 Год назад

Quentin Crisp had a similar variation I quite like: “If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.”

@bellakagamine Год назад

this one is insane. you have to wonder if he knew exactly what was going to happen, honestly.

@xSayresthx Год назад

What could have he been thinking when the dummy didn't work and he still went ahead and tried it?

@scoobydo446 Год назад

@@xSayresthx he was thinking he only needed more height

@KCzz15 Год назад

He knew exactly what was going to happen, halfway down the fall when he had his heart attack.

@capt.bart.roberts4975 Год назад

As someone who was a stunt arranger, and participant, you have to be somewhat touched to not do all you can go mitigate the risk.

@gohawks3571 Год назад

@@KCzz15 Man, on the one hand, I was thinking I hope he died of the heart attack on the way down. Then I thought how much a mid air heart attack would suck😖 Poor, kinda stupid, kinda brilliant man...

@jelyfisher Год назад

I once saw a 100ish-year-old video of a man who jumped off the Eiffel tower, supposedly in an early Batman suit. It broke my heart, and I couldn't stop thinking about my little boy who was obsessed with Batman. Now I wonder if it was a video of this man?

@isaacnoroncaasi Год назад

Yes, it was.

@NonStoppie Год назад

Just wanted to say. The tune you use in the beginning and end fits perfectly with your vids!

@coconutsmarties Год назад

Very true, it's foreboding..

@jerseythedog Год назад

Dude is actually a pioneer. He is the world’s first BASE jumper.

@zakelwe Год назад

So that is what the E stands for in BASE ... Eiffel....

@NibNa5ty Год назад

Based base jumper

@ytcensorhack1876 Год назад

More like the world's first darwin award

@Rick0430 Год назад

His biggest problem is he couldn't also be the worlds SECOND base jumper.

@flynnlivescmd Год назад

How often do planes crash? Just once.

@rayross997 Год назад

He certainly should have had confidence in his invention, that is confidence it was not safe. He sure had guts and most likely helped other inventors learn from his mistake.

@zombiedoggie2732 Год назад

yes, the failure could be a learning opportunity. But it's only a learning opportunity if you don't make yourself the guinea pig. The mannequin can also give a good 'wat if' scenerio. Such as, 'what if the pilot was injured, or somehow otherwise incompacitated, can they still safely get down?'

@CT77 Год назад

He fell so that we could someday float 😀

@dx1450 Год назад

One could say he made a huge impact in parachute design...

@gnarthdarkanen7464 Год назад

@@zombiedoggie2732 Actually, you CAN be the guinea pig and still gain a valuable learning experience from a failure... It's just that YOU MUST SURVIVE that experience to put that learning and gains to any use, yourself... Otherwise, it's still a learning experience, but reserved for someone else. World's MOST dedicated TEACHER??? ;o)

@D0NU75 Год назад

Well seeing he's got a heart attack on midair, even if the parachute deployed and worked properly he would have landed most likely dead. That really makes me question the level of confidence he had in his plan though, maybe a test jump with a dummy could have had prevented this.

@The_Defiant_One Год назад

"A man's got to know his limitations." - Inspector Harold Francis Callahan

@Diptera_Larvae Год назад

Not all tragedies have to be in vain, it’s this type of video that reminds me why I like this channel, sometimes a loss of life can pave for a safer future.

@BrenMurphy1 Год назад

Indeed. Often it is only after we smell the scent of failure that we can sniff the wife of success. Or something like that 😂🎉

@seeker296 Год назад

This one was totally in vain. Could have used a mannequin

@travisbrunner2922 Год назад

@@BrenMurphy1 Go sniff someone else's wife!

@whitestarlinegoodnight Год назад

In some alternate universe, this story would've been a classic "underdog inventor proves his naysayers wrong", and I think there's a lesson to be learnt in that. When the famous inventors of the past began experimenting with their passion projects, their success came only after repeated failure beforehand (and with a significant amount of luck). The only thing that separates great inventors with confidence and failures with excessive hubris is how much of their faith in their work is justified.

@marablake344 Год назад

Your documentaries are so well researched, scripted, and produced. I look forward every Tuesday to watching them. Thank you for sharing your dedication and sharing these with us.

@FascinatingHorror Год назад

And thank YOU for watching! I love being able to share these stories.

@tgd9477 Год назад

Yes I love history and these are awesome 👍🏾

@mattmc5069 4 месяца назад

I gotta give him a 10 out of 10 for effort. He cared about whom would use his invention, did his research and was confident enough in the product to demonstrate it himself. Really you can't ask for a better inventor. It makes it all the more tragic. But his death isn't in vain because it did save some lives im sure there is at least one person who believed his idea would work and maybe even didn't know him but has a similar idea and abandoned the idea due to the tragedy. He didn't show us what worked that day but he did show us what DIDN'T work. That ultimately made others tweak their designs.

@johncmitchell4941 2 месяца назад

@@mattmc5069 Sadly, while he could surely construct the suit he didn't design it based on testing prototypes or perhaps variants. Imagine what he'd have improved had he learned from the tower with a 'dummy'. One could say he tried too hard. He was pushing the envelope as were all the others. Then we now have wing suits, but I can't imagine how one would land, esp if not trained to do so. Hmm ..

@McKeelix Год назад

Confirmation bias is a hell of a drug. I get why he was so convinced it’d work, though. As a kid I used to jump off ledges with my umbrella open. I could feel the air resistance catch, and it really did feel like it made a difference in whether or not I stumbled upon landing. However, my uncle had parachuted a few times while training in the national guard, and he had explained that even with a military grade parachute, you still hit the ground hard enough to explode your knees and decimate your spine if you’re not ready for it. He was good at explaining things.

@frogman9989 Год назад

His mustache was absolutely AWESOME . It's a shame what happened, but the mustache, pure brilliance!

@ghostratsarah Год назад

knowing what NOT to do, and the consequences of doing it, is probably even more important than knowing how to do it. This wouldn't have become such a significant lesson if he hadn't made it so... dramatic. At least he died for something.

@SylverMage Год назад

And yet, there are SO many Jurassic Park movies... But no, you're right. Learning what DOESN'T work is very much part of the scientific process. It's always a shame when it comes at a high cost, but it wasn't meaningless. And his heart was in the right place: parachutes are valuable to air travel.

@HellyeahRook Год назад

@@Horizon429 He's definitely famous for his endeavors.

@macaylacayton2915 Год назад

lol yeah, if you know what to do and still screw it up then it's a somewhat smaller(comparatively) lesson than NOT knowing what to do and screwing it up. screwing it up as you did NOT know what to do means A LOT has to be learned and set in stone

@trevorregay9283 Год назад

I guess....however, I do get the sense from this vid that thee was some kind of race to find or develop a parachute type device for the nascent air travel mode......that being said, I don't he was responsible for bringing this to the forefront or anyone used his "design" to further parachuting.....perhaps others considered how to make one less cumbersome and looked briefly at what this guy was pushing, but knew full well that you definitely needed far more surface area of a chute in order to slow its descent......anyway, I don't think we can call this man the father of the parachute or casualty of its future development...

@kennedytaylor4783 Год назад

Well said.

@LORDOFDORKNESS42 Год назад

I deeply respect Franz commitment. He went all in on his dream. Just a pity he didn't have the patience for a few more trail runs.

@user-xu2pi6vx7o Год назад

Even moreso that his dream was to save others.

@trevordick272 Год назад

To be fair, I don’t think too many more trail runs would have helped. Hard to inflate a parachute at ground level effectively.

@jake12466 4 месяца назад

*TRIAL, not TRAIL

@DollarGeneral_Is_a_Plague Год назад

Imagine bringing some of these inventors into the future to today and seeing their reactions to today's technology.

@coconutsmarties Год назад

Those inventors: "Like wtf guys it's 2023 and you lot STILL don't have flying cars?!"

@martinc.720 Год назад

Hey look! An "Imagine" comment!

@DollarGeneral_Is_a_Plague Год назад

@@martinc.720 You should see all my other comments on YT 😁

@funniebunnie4u Год назад

Why are you mad at Dollar General?🤔🤔🤔

@DollarGeneral_Is_a_Plague Год назад

@@funniebunnie4u just do some research.

@davidbudge8359 Год назад

Quoting the original plan he was actually going to jump from the second platform but his friends stopped him, if he had jumped from that height his parachute would have fully deployed and might have saved him. The book of Heroic Failures.

@lindsay3995 Год назад

I’m going to need someone to explain to me this concept of having a heart attack on the way down. Even someone experiencing a heart attack rarely drops dead immediately, so I can’t imagine post-mortem evidence of an attack really tells us much. You can’t very well say he was dead before hitting the ground or anything, though that would be comforting in some way to think-especially if you’re terrified of heights like me.

@Sashazur Год назад

I’m also skeptical about this. If you read up about heart attack autopsy, they can find blocked arteries but that doesn’t happen instantly. Any other evidence like dead heart tissue also wouldn’t have had time to happen. On the other hand if his heart stopped due to fright, that’s technically not a heart attack since it’s not caused by blockage - and I doubt they could have seen evidence of that in an autopsy either. But I’m not a doctor so…?

@AG-ng8gt Год назад

I always learn something new from this channel, even about incidents I've heard about many times before.

@bobt5778 Год назад

A bad day. His invention failed, he had a heart attack, and he had to climb 347 stairs to do it.

@nicoleofnowhere8842 Год назад

It's so sad because if you watch the film of the drop (not for the faint of heart) you can tell that if he'd done it with a mannequin, he would've learned so much about how to change his design from the film. 😢 The thing did fully unfurl.

@adamellsworth3732 Год назад

Imagine if the parachute had worked perfectly, but still suffered a heart attack, and he landed safely on the ground, dead. That would have spooked a lot of further invention for a while. Even if people completely trusted their designs, it would plant the idea that humans can't take the stress of the trip.

@davi.medrade 5 месяцев назад

Reminded me of this. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Hayes_(jockey)

@jacekatalakis8316 Год назад

I knew the story as soon as you mentioned where and that an invention was involved. I just forgot the name of the poor guy who tried showing it worked.

@BrenMurphy1 Год назад

Beautiful 😢 ❤️

@TK-fk4po Год назад

The footage of his death plunge is readily available on RU-vid. It is very eerie.

@trevorregay9283 Год назад

@@TK-fk4po your kidding? This was filmed? I didn't realize they had that ability back then......then again...I suppose if there was ever something to capture on film....this was it........

@TK-fk4po Год назад

@@trevorregay9283 Yeah, search on youtube. This video had clips from it - but of course, the eerie part is him standing on the edge for almost a minute appearing to go back and forth as to whether he should do it, then he jumps and the guy on the ground captures the death plunge and impact and a few seconds of onlookers taking his broken body away.

@elizabethhair9017 Год назад

Hope you'll do something for April like you did last year with the Isla Nublar Incident.

@travismiller4320 Год назад

Probably, the year before had video on the Amity Bay shark incident, trying to brainstorm in my head movies he could do…

@stevenstice6683 Год назад

The Nakatomi Plaza Crisis was highly requested.

@eeveestar6826 Год назад

@@stevenstice6683Personally I'd love to see the 1997 eruption of Mt Wilshire in Los Angeles or the 1997 eruption of Dante's Peak. The capsizing of the SS Poseidon in the seventies would be a good one too.

@housemana Год назад

you normies, stop discussing this. he will do what he will do.

@erraticonteuse Год назад

I don't actually want him to do The Snap, but just imagining Infinity War/Endgame being told in this format is very funny to me.

@SonOfASpurs2023 Год назад

Poor man, but happy to have his story treated with such respect. Always the best work my good sir

@johnirving5949 Год назад

He failed to understand the gravity of the situation.

@ashleighbrennan3503 Год назад

You win the internet today

@wayneliebl1098 8 месяцев назад

LOL

@rogersheddy6414 Год назад

I found the pathe' film showing the incident, including the impact depression it looks very much like something you would see with Bugs Bunny and Wylie Coyote.

@helenawarsinnak Год назад

As ALWAYS.... another AMAZING video!! This story is so extremely sad...Franz was so damn passionate and proud of his creation and unfortunately a little bit over confident... I feel, if he would have used one of the mannequins, he would have noticed the flaws in his suit... And I can guarantee he would have been immediately making a new design to replace the last one as he did on prior attempts, and POSSIBLY in time could have made the right parachute...but, he was a smart and talented man that put his whole heart and life into his creation, WHICH helped to lead the way to what is used today!! (**To bad he wasn't around long enough to see it!!😥🙏)

@borderlands6606 Год назад

He went from hypothesis to conclusion, without observation or methodology. Not a good idea with novel technology and science.

@Skaatje Год назад

He was NOT a smart man. lol 😂

@LilliBlackmore Год назад

I love this channel. Your work is always respectful and never sensational.

@melissag9160 Год назад

Wow, isn't it funny how we don't think about the origins of things that we take for granted today? I can't say that I've ever wondered about the origins of the parachute. I've always wondered who was the first person to think that eating a raw oyster was a good idea, but I've never wondered about the first person to think that personally testing the first parachute was a good idea. I love this channel. So many interesting stories about the origins and development of safety measures, tools, and regulations that have impacted society. Thank you!

@westsidewheelmen Год назад

How about the guy that discovered milk? I bet he was into a lot of creepy stuff.

@tannerhyde-dc3ud Год назад

And… The Artichoke. Who can look at a large Thistle & think there’s something edible there. But…. They are delicious. Who knew.

@stephenmoerlein8470 Год назад

One has to admire his passion for discovery and invention. In science, even an experiment with negative results can generate new knowledge. What was it about his design that failed? RIP Franz Reichelt, and congratulations for your contribution in advancing parachute technology.

@vinawaldren6888 Год назад

Indeed, I often say if certain inventions were up to me we'd still be living in caves, without fire, without wheels, without tools...(certainly without litter box liners!) 🤣

@sherimcdaniel3491 Год назад

wow. if he stood, looking down, for several minutes before jumping and had a heart attack, mid-fall, he pretty much got the result that was inevitable.

@SpaceCadet45s Год назад

When that parachute didn't deploy, he simply gave up the ghost. He knew it was over. RIP

@DerMichael Год назад

And to be fair, if any human is to try that invention in action, it may be their inventor. After many tests without humans of course, but imagine someone would tell you "I got this new invention, and all my dummies survived, but we never tested it with a human. You wanna try?" I certainly wouldn't because I would be too scared. Reichelt stood there, uncertain too, but I guess he knew he had to do it because no one else would.

@lifespanwellnessbeauty-60i64 Год назад

@@SpaceCadet45s Amen.

@sherimcdaniel3491 Год назад

@@DerMichael HAHAHAHA!!! Touche’

@TheJumpingJake Год назад

To this day, this man was a pioneer to greater things than he could have imagined.

@TheJingles007 Год назад

“We’d rather have pilots die with the plane than have a parachute because planes are expensive” It’s nice to see that governments have always sucked

@chad9166 Год назад

Probably would have better luck surviving trying to land the plane than using some moron's death trap "parachute" but kk

@nonna_sof5889 Год назад

There was a faction in British Parliament against helmets during WW1, saying they increased head injuries... well ignoring that those head injuries would have been deaths without their helmet. Really it was just because a crippled soldier costs more than a dead one. Of course it's not like private industry is any better. Kids caught in machines and all that.

@medler2110 Год назад

@@nonna_sof5889 Or maybe they didn't understand the concept of survivorship bias.

@skiller189x4 Год назад

As someone who has made several airborne jumps in the US Army, and one with the South Korean special ops, I always had a second to contemplate trusting my life with a person who packed the chute (called a Rigger) who I had never met and never seen. How many put their lives in someone else’s hands so unequivocally? In the military we have to have ultimate trust in our comrades.

@Joseph-Mamma Год назад

Pssy

@raumshen9298 Год назад

I just saw the actual footage, of course FH narration is just spot on

@holotori_senior_admin_teno Год назад

You always see those black and white videos of the missteps in early aviation, the failures in design of planes and helicopters and parachutes. It's great seeing one of those brought to life, and the story behind them explained.

@zachhaywood1564 Год назад

Been following this story for a long time, never knew until now about his heart attack. That's what I like about your channel. I always learn something new.

@elliottprice6084 Год назад

For all his faults, and being blinded by his own ambition, Franz Reichelt had his flaws, but he paved the way for saving a lot of lives in aviation, and that has to be remembered. I'd never heard of him before, and its stories like these that Fascinating Horror brings to memory so well

@ng.tr.s.p.1254 Год назад

The sole reason why other parachute inventors weren't as well-known was simply because they cared about safety and didn't attempt to take their own life to make a point.

@kaoru288 Год назад

sometimes the best of inventions came from mere accidents. Imagine during the jump, Franz's parachute folded just the right way for him to just glide down below. he noticed it, checked how it looked from other photographers present at the time, trimmed some excess stuff on his "chute" and,instead of making a parachute, he made the very first Wingsuit

@lordshell Год назад

Gotta admire the courage. And confidence. Wisdom, on the other hand...

@adamlee3772 Год назад

Amazed you have covered this today. I was just talking to the guys at work about this on Friday.

@FM-hw8yv Год назад

New Fascinating Horror videos always make my week better

@tonisiret5557 Год назад

At least this episode doesn't follow the "innocent people die, & the people in charge get off Scott-free" formula! He paved the way for others, good for him 👍

@robertuskoppies444 Год назад

This is one of the best channels on youtube. The very finely selected topics, your voice, the way of telling these stories, the respect for the subject and the suspense that you build up very creatively....outstanding performance. Thank you very much for running this creative channel.

@CatOperated Год назад

I’ll say this, he had an absolutely fantastic mustache.

@franreid8203 Год назад

Poison would have been impressed.

@franreid8203 Год назад

Poirot

@coconyt3623 Год назад

By the way, congratulations on 1M! Brings me great joy to see your continued growth, especially as someone who found you when you had some 7 or 8 uploads. Very well deserved, here's to your continued rise and looking forward to more FH docs!

@galebailey5583 Год назад

But even the Wright Brothers realized that attempting to fly or glide involved risking their lives with their invention. You could say Reichelt was doing the same with his parachute suit, but his results ended very tragically.

@shiroshika1 Год назад

We can learn one thing from Reichelt. Conviction.

@daveb227 Год назад

And gravity never fails

@nhmooytis7058 Год назад

Or the wisdom of “Let’s not and say we did.”

@lofthouse23 3 месяца назад

Avoid France at all costs?

@jajssblue Год назад

187 feet. Dang, even into water, that would've been nuts.

@legendarygary2744 Год назад

Your videos never fail to live up to your channel’s name!

@gantz22ify Год назад

His biggest mistake was saying “See you soon!”. That’s like saying “I’ll be right back.” in a horror film.

@niaram Год назад

this makes me so sad. he worked so hard and had so much confidence in it. i can’t imagine how terrified he must’ve felt when he realized it wasn’t going to work. he just wanted to be an inventor and change the world, and ppl just mock him

@AaronShenghao Год назад

There is courage and there is reckless. There is a fine line in between…

@TreyMcDonaldAnimator Год назад

Really, somebody had to. A Rocketeer sense of nobility without the precautions of health nor fatality. It really does take a man with at worst a boost of arrogance and showmanship, at beast a novel and world changing sense of bravery and innovation, to do something this insane. Give him this, he went down in the history books, but not for the reason he may have wanted.

@svenjansen2134 9 месяцев назад

'At beast' lol

@MAllen-ng8pl Год назад

He really made an impact on the world.

@alsmith9853 Год назад

Whoooshh!

@_kaleido Год назад

I wonder if he had the heart attack first and therefore was unable to deploy the parachute?

@Bananacustardcostuming Год назад

Exactly what I thought

@lyrmaxlyrics Год назад

From how it sounds, the suit itself was supposed to be the parachute. It didn't seem like there was an additional parachute that needed to be deployed. Seeing the footage though, it seems even if there was one it wouldn't make a difference.

@carlstenger5893 Год назад

Excellent video. I look forward to each of your videos. Your research is solid and your presentation is engaging. Thanks so much!

@Unownshipper Год назад

God, you’re really good at building tension with your delivery. My palms were getting sweaty listening to this account. My fear of heights helped, but it was mostly your narration. I wish he’d followed his proposal and used a mannequin, but I commend his desire to be a pioneer. Sad way to go.

@kevincharbonneau5953 Год назад

Love❤ your channel. Thank you for sharing these stories.

@jackking5567 Год назад

It's a tragic story. The footage we have of the event is so sad to see. A lure of big money on offer and his desire to not just claim a reward but to also make his name known to many. It's unfortunate that we know his name now for the wrong reasons. His pausing on the jump is difficult to watch. For me I see a man who adored the excitement and attention from the crowds and yet once there, stood on the boundary he's pretty much regretting his choices. It's like he's regretting being there and it's only the desire to please a crowd that makes him leap. I expect his heart was already going into meltdown before he jumped - his body rejecting his life choices. I'm pleased you made this video. It gives us a much better understanding of the man and his life and dreams. Thanks for sharing.

@aprilmorris4588 Год назад

That was a truly fascinating story. It really proves that there are lessons to be learned from someone else's mistakes.

@Rosscogalli81 Год назад

Loved this documentary! Thanks for creating it.👍

@davidmedlin8562 Год назад

I appreciate you not showing the footage, why I like and respect this channel its not about shock

@martinc.720 Год назад

Would have been removed by RU-vid.

@meetoo594 Год назад

@@martinc.720 The full unedited footage is on youtube, has been for years.

@ChewyThomson Год назад

Man, times were wild back in the day. I remember reading a book at uni all about different entertainment at the end of the 19th century in Paris and it was a crazy time. I remember reading that the morgues would take all the unclamed Jane and John Does, dress them up, pose them and put them behind glass and people would make an afternoon of just going to stare at dead cadavers. Crazy stuff. I think the book was called Spectacular Realities or something like that. Really interesting read.

@farfaraway4285 Год назад

And what about the organised head on train collisions, that was crazy. Like monster truck rally of the age.

@ChewyThomson Год назад

@@farfaraway4285 Oh yeah, those must have been something else.

@Pattilapeep Год назад

Another great job! I always look forward to your new releases and save them so I can watch them while I eat my lunch. Keep up the good work . Cheers Pat in New Jersey

@Audriene Год назад

I think he invested so much time and effort that eventually, he felt there was no turning back.

@berner Год назад

I'm actually very impressed and thankful for Franz and other inventors like him, because even though it was fatal, it was because of him that we learned what didn't work which if I recall correctly, is a part of finding out what does. There's an expression I heard a while ago and I think it applies here: "There's no such thing as a failed experiment."

@coconutsmarties Год назад

This was one of the very rare examples of a truly failed experiment. If he had used a mannequin and it was destroyed on impact, even that would've been a valuable outcome as it would provide him with data to work on his next iteration. This just provided the Parisian concrete with a wet splat.

@berner Год назад

@@coconutsmarties Whether it was a non living construct made out of plastic or a biological organism, the end result was the same: His parachute suit didn't work. It was tragic but we all learned something from this experiment.

@svenjansen2134 9 месяцев назад

'Always wear a labcoat so it's an experiment'

@mauricedavis2160 Год назад

Another excellent episode Sir!!!🙏👌🦉❣️

@maryriley6163 Год назад

Thank you for narrating so clearly and at a normal pace.

@LegendOfKitty Год назад

I really love historical stuff like this. Looking forward to your next video!!

@colleenfaini2087 Год назад

I knew a lady (over a 104 yrs old in the 70's), whose only son was killed in a WWI airplane crash. I wonder if he could have been saved by a parachute.

@svenjansen2134 9 месяцев назад

Read that as: 'I knew a lady lover 104 years old'..

@kdfulton3152 Год назад

Over a century before his time. Look at the parachute suits now.

@drdrew3 Год назад

You are no doubt referring to MC Hammer’s parachute pants

@tinaharnish Год назад

You didn't mention that parachutes are landing small planes. The planes do suffer damage but the occupants come out unscathed. Now, if only they had them for big planes...His creation should be considered an early wingsuit prototype. Excellent idea. Poor execution.

@ChristieAdamsKangoo Год назад

Well, I'll hand it to him: he was confident to the end and he didn't try to coerce anyone else into being his human guinea pig. At least he went out chasing his dream.

@rl2699 Год назад

So here's a quick question. If the autopsy shows he had a heart attack on the way down then is that why technically his experiment/invention didn't work? If he passed away before he was able to deploy his parachute then how can it be proven that it didn't work?

@victoriaeads6126 Год назад

Even with 20/20 hindsight (and we all know what 2020 was like), this guy needed better friends. We weren't exactly great at understanding aerodynamics in those days, but this was predictable just with the poor results he had already gotten. If nothing else, the guard could have tackled the guy when he tried to jump. At least his death hasn't been forgotten, and we did learn from it.

@kevinmcgiveney5128 Год назад

This happened on the exact same day as the Niagara Falls ice Bridge disaster.

@akaCONSTANTINE Год назад

You have to wonder... If he had a heart attack in the two second fall... Maybe he was in the process of already having one from the climb up and the stress. It could be feasible to think that he could have been having one as he jumped, hindering him from deploying his parashoot how he intended. Maybe the invention didn't fail completely. Maybe he never got to deploy it properly. 🤔

@mjanovec Год назад

I don’t believe there is any way they could have properly diagnosed a heart attack at that time. I think it was a dramatic addition to the story to introduce some doubt that the parachute failed.

@nicoledenning8090 Год назад

I was wondering the same!! Yet everyone was set on calling it a failure but I guess we'll never know. But what you said makes sense

@HaesslichG Год назад

If he saw modern wingsuits, he'd feel thoroughly validated.

@GenXfrom75 Год назад

My grandparents both turned 1 year old in 1912. Crazy they were actually alive when this happened!! I rather feel terrible his dream ended so disastrously. 💔

@nicoledenning8090 Год назад

My Grandfather was also born in 1911, that is crazy being alive when this happened! How far we've come in a short time!

@user-em1dw3ft6m 3 месяца назад

His final seconds of existence had to be absolutely horrific and embarrassing. Unimaginable the terror and shame he was feeling as he plummeted to earth like a stone.

@echothebm Год назад

Just gussing by the title and Eiffeil tower. This is about the Parachute man.

@echothebm Год назад

He went down. In history. And the grave

@drumdad54sdl47 Год назад

For some, there is a razor-thin line between stoic confidence & madness.

@THE_NEW_CRUSADER 6 месяцев назад

Why not a bit of both?

@adamlee3772 Год назад

One thing I read about this incident was that underneath the tower at the time it was grassed. There was a Reichelt shaped indentation in the earth for weeks afterwards.

@heath2694 Год назад

I recently heard of this story in the Cautionary Tales podcast. Thanks for sharing this detailed account.

@korbell1089 Год назад

Reichelt: "Hold my wine." People like him are critical for the survival of our race. We watch them then say things like, "OK, don't eat that." or, "Yeah that didn't work."