The oldest known depiction of a parachute, by an anonymous author ( Italy, 1470s )

* Hildegarde Ferrera becomes the oldest person to parachute out of a plane, at 99 years old.

İzmir International Fair ( IEF ), the oldest member from Turkey of the International Union of Fairs is held every year in August – September at Kültürpark, which covers an area of 421, 000 m² in the heart of the city with open-air theatres, the Painting and Sculpture Museum, art centers, amusement park, zoo, parachute tower, and other amenities.

Of the original units of 50 Parachute Brigade, only two exist as of date, namely 411 Parachute Field Company of the Bombay Sappers, the oldest parachute unit of the Indian Army and 50 Parachute Brigade Signal Company.

Drums are the world's oldest and most ubiquitous musical instruments, and the basic design has remained virtually unchanged for thousands of years.

The Ford GT40 is a high performance British-American sports car and winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans four consecutive times, from 1966 to 1969 ( 1966 being the Mk II, 1967 the Mk IV, and 1968-1969 the oldest chassis design, the Mk I ).

Traditional kayaks encompass three types: Baidarkas, from the Alaskan & Aleutian seas, the oldest design, whose rounded shape and numerous chines give them an almost Blimp-like appearance ; West Greenland kayaks, with fewer chines and a more angular shape, with gunwales rising to a point at the bow and stern ; and East Greenland kayaks that appear similar to the West Greenland style, but often fit more snugly to the paddler and possess a steeper angle between gunwale and stem, which lends maneuvrability.

Described by the Government as " The oldest military formation in the Republic, nominated in the statutes of 1295 ", its uniform is medieval in design, and although it is a statutory military unit, it has no actual military function today.

This is the original design and still the most widely used board form as it is the oldest.

* City Market ( built in 1876, oldest city market in North America, with an original ship's hull roof design )

Dating from 3500 BCE to 3100 BCE, it is similar in design to Skara Brae, but from an earlier period, and it is thought to be the oldest preserved standing building in northern Europe.

The Uffington is by far the oldest of the white horse figures in Britain, and is of an entirely different design from the others.

Optical microscopes are the oldest design of microscope and were possibly designed in their present compound form in the 17th century.

Visitors to Merton are often told Mob Quad, built in the 14th century, is the oldest quadrangle of any Oxford or Cambridge college and set the pattern for future collegiate architecture, but Front Quad was certainly enclosed earlier ( albeit with a less unified design ) and other colleges, for example Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, can point to their own older examples.

The modern stand, the oldest remaining stand at the ground, was constructed between 1913 and 1915 for a fee exceeding £ 17, 000 to a design by Archibald Leitch.

Makers of recumbent trikes include KMX ; Hase ( who make the Kettwiesel delta, improbably named after the British children's programme Catweazle ); Inspired Cycle Engineering, who make the Trice range of tadpole trikes ; AVD, who build the record holding Burrows Windcheetah or Speedy, a design exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art ( MoMA ); Australia's Greenspeed, one of the oldest manufacturers ; Michigan-based WhizWheelz, which makes 10 models, including a tadpole and a tandem ; Big Cat HPV which builds the eight Catrike models in Florida and Sidewinder Cycle which has a front wheel drive system with rear wheel steering builds 3 models all with Electric assist capability located in California.

Founded in Massachusetts in 1983, CNC Software, Inc. is one of the oldest developers of PC-based computer-aided design / computer-aided manufacturing ( CAD / CAM ) software.

The RBMK is an early Generation II reactor and the oldest commercial reactor design still in wide operation ; it features a number of design and safety flaws ( such as graphite-tipped control rods, a dangerous positive void coefficient and instability at low power levels ) that have since been rectified in newer designs.

In 1900, Gottlieb Daimler included a Roots-style supercharger in a patented engine design, making the Roots-type supercharger the oldest of the various designs now available.

The school is Canada's largest and oldest educational institution for art and design.

It would later became the oldest Māori church in the country and was known for its unique mix of Māori and English church design.

The one-dollar bill has the oldest reverse design of all U. S. currency, while the two-dollar bill has the oldest obverse design currently being produced.

Furthermore, the Pennon of the Conquest of Valencia is documented as the world's oldest extant flag, dating from 1238, even though the yellow part was originally white, but the red stripes design was the same.

A small Tibetan sitting rug with traditional Gau ( amulet ) design, representative of the designs that are believed to be amongst the oldest on Tibetan carpets

As this is one of the world's oldest records of a plant's reaction to climatic conditions, researchers have been interested to note that the first bud appears earlier and earlier in the year.

The largest and oldest caldera segment appears to have formed as a single, large lava lake.

A mace head found in Can Hasan, Turkey and dated to 5000 BC, once thought to be the oldest evidence, now appears to be hammered native copper.

The oldest Barrancoid settlement appears to have been at Erin, on the south coast.

The Lizard Wireless Station is the oldest Marconi station to survive in its original state in the world and is located to the west of the Lloyds Signal Station in what appears to be a wooden hut.

The oldest surviving written record of Vinland appears in Descriptio insularum Aquilonis, by Adam of Bremen, a German ( Saxon ) geographer and historian, written in about 1075.

It may be connected with the root of break, for its early uses are confined to broken pieces or bits of bread, the Latin crustum, and it was not until the 12th century that it took the place — as the generic name for bread — of hlaf ( in Gothic: modern English loaf ), which appears to be the oldest Teutonic name.

The text survives in several thousand partial and complete manuscripts, the oldest of which appears to date from the 11th century A. D.

Although traces of this figure are still evident in the oldest texts of both India and Iran, in both cultures the word eventually appears as the epithet of other divinities.

The oldest known name of the strait is urasuti which appears on a runestone from about 950 and it was locally known as Oresund in the 13th century.

Henryville is home to Indiana's oldest state forest Clark State Forest, and birthplace of Colonel Harlan Sanders, whose iconic image appears in the Kentucky Fried Chicken logo.

This appears to be the oldest surviving account.

Lafayette's lineage appears to be one of the oldest in Auvergne.

Yip's oldest son Ip Chun appears in the film and served as a consultant for the film.

The pottery style characteristic of the first phases of Jōmon culture has markings made using cords, and appears to be among the oldest pottery in the world, if not the oldest.

In particular, it appears that Waite took his inspiration for the trumps mainly from the French Tarot of Marseilles ( although the oldest date from the 16th century, his model was possibly a Marseilles deck from the 18th century ).

The oldest collection of written Sibylline Books appears to have been made about the time of Solon and Cyrus at Gergis on Mount Ida in the Troad.

Benedictus was formerly credited with the authorship of the Gesta on the ground that his name appears in the title of the oldest manuscript.

The mytheme of Heracles contesting with Apollo for the tripod appears in vase-paintings older than the oldest written literature.

Bob Einstein frequently appears as Marty Funkhouser, another of Larry's oldest friends.

According to the producer, the members are listed in the new name by the order of their birth dates from oldest to youngest, thus Vanness Wu's name appears before Vic Chou's.

This is probably the oldest version of the name being the modern form of a name Bucgan or Buggilde Street which appears in documents earlier than the Norman Conquest.

West to the Altar of Zeus are the foundations of Meton's heliotropion, the oldest known astronoical observatory, where he performed several of his measurementsthat led to the calculations involving the eponymous 19-year Metonic cycle which he introduced in 432 BC into the lunisolar Attic calendar, a calendar that appears in the Antikythera Mechanism.