{"product_id":"doronin-brothers-parachutes-inventors-9798324052669","title":"Doronin Brothers, Parachutes inventors","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Juan Fraile-Nuez\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Russia - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book tells the experiences of three very talented parachutist brothers, inventors and engineers, named Nikolay, Vladimir and Anatoly Doronin.\u003cbr\u003eTheir creative character made a great contribution to the development of parachuting and skydiving in the USSR and increased the safety of parachute drops from airplanes, earning the gratitude and respect from pilots and parachutists thanks to their inventions' reliability.\u003cbr\u003eThey were part of the VDV (Soviet Union Airborne Forces) for a large part of their lives, and despite their youth, they invented the PPD-1, the world's first automatic activation device (AAD) designed to open a parachute, housed inside a small grey box, causing a revolution in the world of skydiving. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book narrates the needs of the battlefront, the airsupply requirements and how the brothers were able to face adversity and develop new parachute activation systems, which would be used in the first manned space flight, and which continue to be used in today, almost 90 years later.","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45570837577879,"sku":"9798324052669","price":2229.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798324052669.webp?v=1768605243","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/doronin-brothers-parachutes-inventors-9798324052669","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}