Adrian Nicholas

Adrian Nicholas ( born March 4, 1962 † 17 September 2005) was a British skydiver with over 8000 jumps in thirty countries.

Nicholas became known to a wider public in 2000 through its successful test of Leonardo da Vinci's parachute study, with which he could provide practical evidence that Leonardo da Vinci was around 1485 the first operational parachute design ever succeeded. Its pyramidal design was successfully tested later in a modified form by the Swiss Olivier Vietti - Teppa.