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The Parachute Jump could be a defunct amusement ride in city district, Brooklyn, New York, whose painting open-frame steel structure remains a borough landmark. 250 feet (76 m) tall and consideration a hundred and seventy tons (150 tonnes), it’s been referred to as the “Eiffel Tower of Brooklyn”. It had been designed for the 1939 the big apple World’s honest in Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, and rapt to its current website, then a part of the Steeplechase Park park, in 1941. It’s the sole portion of Steeplechase Park still standing nowadays. The ride ceased operations in 1964 once the park clean up permanently.
The ride was supported purposeful parachutes that were control open by metal rings throughout the ascent and descent. Twelve cantilevered steel arms sprout from the highest of the tower, every of that supported a parachute connected to a raise rope and a group of encompassing guide cables. Riders were beltlike into a two-person canvas seat hanging below the closed chute, then hoisted to the highest, wherever a unharness mechanism would drop them, the descent slowed solely by the parachute. Shock absorbers at very cheap, consisting of pole-mounted springs, padded the landing. Every parachute needed 3 cable operators, keeping labor expenses high.
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