Parachute

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The parachute in action

Parachutes were an invention devised by Leonardo da Vinci during the Renaissance of the early 16^thcentury. They were able to slow a fall from any height, and could also allow its user to maneuver through the air.

They were square-shaped, and made up of cloth and ropes. However, as they were single-use, more were purchasable from tailors, along with larger bags that allowed one to carry up to fifteen at once.

After Leonardo created the parachutes upon the destruction of all of his War Machines, he offered them as an addition to the arsenal of the Assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze.

Aside from using a parachute to slow down his fall, Ezio could also drop from the parachute at any time, and perform an air assassination.

The Turkish Assassins of Constantinople also made use of parachutes. The Turkish Master Assassin, Yusuf Tazim and three other Assassins used parachutes to cross the wall of Topkapı Palace, while an Assassin apprentice used one during the assassination of Lysistrata.

Trivia

• Though it was designed by the real-life Leonardo da Vinci, it was never used during the Renaissance, since testing it would involve a person jumping from a tower.
• In Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, deploying a parachute while leaping off the Castel Sant'Angelo will earn the player the "Fly Like An Eagle" achievement.
• After downloading The Da Vinci Disappearance, the "Special Delivery" achievement can be unlocked by executing a double air assassination from a parachute.
• Using the parachute momentarily and quickly releasing it will not consume any parachute supplies.
  • In Assassin's Creed: Revelations though, this method will still consume parachutes.
• When the player enters a Lair of Romulus, all the parachutes are removed, and do not re-stock upon exiting. This was fixed in a patch, but still occurs when you replay War Machine and Da Vinci Disappearance memories.
  • The same bug occurs in Revelations, when the player enters either the Hagia Sophia mission, or Vlad the Impaler's Prison.
• In Revelations, the player can earn the "Almost Flying" achievement by parachuting off Galata Tower into the waters of the Golden Horn.
• In Revelations, the player can obtain the achievement "Show-Off" by parachuting onto a zipline.
• Adrian Nicholas, a British skydiver, took the design of Leonardo da Vinci's pyramidal parachute and successfully tested it in 2000, despite scientists saying he would fail. He built it out of Renaissance materials and using Renaissance tools, proving Leonardo's design.

Gallery

• Original concept art of the parachute from the Assassin's Creed Art Exhibition.
  Original concept art of the parachute from the Assassin's Creed Art Exhibition.
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  Concept illustration of the parachute designs.
• Ezio using a parachute over Rome.
  Ezio using a parachute over Rome.
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  Ezio assassinating a guard from a parachute in Constantinople.