Record of flight range of the guns are owned by American David Smith (David Smith): the 1995-meters, he "fired" by 55 meters, pobiv 53-meter record of Italian acrobat Idelbrando Zakkini of 1940.
On account of David, nicknamed "Bullet" more than 5000 flights.
David Smith earns his living by the same difficulty as the father ... Smith has created a senior-seven people-shells - these craft owned by his son, two daughters and a cousin ...
He also designed seven guns, shot people, five of which belong to his family.Along with them, they travel around the world, demonstrating their skills
As it happens, you can see through the photographer and Banner jumper, Bill Smith, who made detailed Storyboard such a jump from his career «Nikon» ... "My camera makes approximately eight frames per second, I was very Winning a seat, I made 29 pictures, and this is what happened ... », - said Billy ...
Thanks identikit, you can watch remarkable arc, which describes a daredevil David across the sky ...
According to French people from shooting guns, like themselves, these tryukachi, called "Human Cannonball".Some sources claim that would be the first person shot from guns took place in 1871: a guy naryadili woman and then a similar catapult device in London's music halls.
In other data, first "shell" was in 1875-m George Loyal of the circus Yankee Robinson ...
But most historians attribute the invention of the circus' rights - cannon-core "Englishman George Farini, who introduced this exotic trick 2 Apr, 1877. He shot 14-year-old girl named Matilda Ross Richter, known under the pseudonym Zazel. Shot this progremel at the Royal Aquarium at Westminster.
While Farina immediately patented his insecure and weak "spring-loaded" gun, and Zazel moved to America to work at the circus Barnuma (something which is written that then Zazel severely damaged the back), flights from gun vents stopped at half a century.While in 1922 the Italian acrobat Idelbrando Zakkini who saw the attraction Farini in childhood, decided not to reconstruct this trick.Together with his sons, he built a new revolutionary gun: the driving force was not the spring and compressed air.
Man-core "climb on with the trunk cylinder.The cylinder air is pushed, but not out, and if I may say so, to the edge of the trunk.Cylinder stopped, and people depart.In general, springs replaced pneumatics. In addition, the efforts Zakkini special effects were added in the form of noise and smoke, giving the similarities with this artillery.
The number of shooting children Idelbrando became this sensation, and «Olympia», Family Circus Zakkini, made a very successful tour of Europe.Not surprisingly, the American impresario John Ringling, see one trick in Copenhagen in 1929 moved the whole family Zakkini in the States.
Based in Florida, Idelbrando and its offspring continued improvement tool and equipment performance numbers.In the early 1930's Mario and Emanuel Zakkini first flew from the gun together, to ocheredi.Voobsche same, "nuclei were five of the seven sons Idelbrando, but all in different years, the stunt involved 38 members of the family.
The last of the first generation of gun nuclei Zachini, Mario, died in 1999 aged 87 years.Looking back on his exploits, he was told that the flight - not the most difficult part stunt, the main thing - good land "in the network, from a height seems" very small ".
At the World Fair in New York in 1940, Mario is not fortunate: grid failed, and he polomal several ribs, injured his shoulder.—"After the injury, I recovered quite quickly. I was like a cat with its nine lives. Having lost the eighth, I realized that I live ninth, and decided to leave" - Mario excellent possession and made a lasso attraction to him.
Meanwhile, the rest of the family Zakkini continued their work.They built the cannon X-15, capable of running two people simultaneously, and then reunited in 1966 in Ringlinga circus-m.In a few years entire five troupes gun nuclei "Zakkini with 14 guns toured the country together.Edmond Zakkini, one of the nephews Mario, was the last "human shell" in the family - his final flight was carried out 29 August 1991.
And the show continues to this day ... Singers, men and women who can be counted on the fingers, but they are.The truth, of pneumatics into presently tryukachi refused - spring is safer ...
