Almost 500 years after Leonardo da Vinci first put the concept down on paper, a British daredevil tests Leonardo’s parachute – and to the surprise of skeptics, floats “almost one and a half miles down from a hot air balloon. Ignoring warnings that it would never work, he built the 187lb contraption of wooden poles, canvas and ropes from a simple sketch that Da Vinci had scribbled in a notebook in 1485.” – The Guardian