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Yes.
Al the Apollo spacecrafts use three parachutes.
Silk, up until the war. Japan controlled all the silk-making areas, so silk was unobtainable, for either parachutes or ladies hosiery. Both are made of the synthetic nylon today.
Yes
because i said so 8-)
The armies' tanks were huge.
Its still parachutes.
As a kid we use to make parachute out of handkerchiefs. Just tie a string to the four corners of the handkerchief, tangle a action-figure in the string and throw him high. It works quite well.
Yes if the airplane is going to crash, use one.
bombs use fins or parachutes for stabilization in flight
I think that they currently use nylon, but they used to use silk
Parachutes come in varying sizes.
In 1941 right when pearl harbor happended. They used the material nylon to make these parachutes during the great depression also.