Domina Jalbert

Domina Jalbert Cleophas ( born December 5, 1904 in Saint- Michel-des -Saints, Quebec City, † 26 June 1991) was a Canadian aerodynamicist and is considered the inventor of the mattress- like surface parachute. Through the use of balloon, parachute, wings and hang him, the invention features a linkage-less, by the wind (dynamic pressure ) succeeded inflated and thus rigid wing with tremendous buoyancy force, the parafoil ( paraglider ). In 1964, he reported to the parafoil for a patent. It allowed the replacement of the round canopy parachutes used at that time. The principle is the construction of today's Fläschenfallschirme for the paragliding, skydiving and kite surfing.

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Domina Jalbert was born in Saint- Michel-des -Saints (Quebec ). In his youth, his family moved to Woonsocket (Rhode Iceland ), where he received the U.S. citizenship. As a pioneer of aviation in 1927 he acquired a private pilot license - as 626 Americans at all. Thanks to his great passion for kites soon followed their own constructions. In 1930, he was terminated at the beginning of the war by the United States Rubber Co. to assist in the construction of barrage balloons. His first major invention of this period was the kytoon, a combination of kite and balloon. Were used Kytoons for creating aerial photographs, installing radio antennas, atmospheric research, the lifting of heavy tree trunks, etc. Jalbert founded in 1949, the company " Jalbert Aerology Laboratory ", which soon dealt with the construction of parachutes. During a flight with his Beechcraft airplane in 1953, Jalbert had the idea to construct a parachute in the form of a wing. The parafoil, a flexible wing with open cells of the buoyancy generated by the flow of air. After grant of the patent in 1966, the parafoil aroused public interest and immediately was referred to by some as the greatest progress in parachute design since Leonardo da Vinci.