↑John C. Traupman, Conversational Latin for Oral Proficiency, ed. tertia (2003), 356; Latin and English Dictionary, ed. tertia (Novi Eboraci: Bantam Books, 2007), 613, s.v. parachute. .
Lucas, John. 1973. The big umbrella: the history of the parachute from Da Vinci to Apollo. Praefatio Douglas Bader. Londinii: Elm Tree Books. ISBN 0241022940.
Moolman, Valerie. 1980. The Road to Kitty Hawk. Novi Eboraci: Time-Life Books. ISBN 9780809432608.
Peck, James L. H. 1945. "How Armies Hit The Silk." Popular Science, Iunius. Google Books.
Pell, Smith, et C. S. Gordon. 2003. "Parachute Use to Prevent Death and Major Trauma Related to Gravitational Challenge: Systematic Review of Randomised Controlled Trials." British Medical Journal 327, no. 7429 (20 Decembris)): 1459–61. ISSN 0959-8138. PMID 14684649.
Soden, Garrett. 2005. Defying Gravity: Land Divers, Roller Coasters, Gravity Bums, and the Human Obsession with Falling.Novi Eboraci: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-32656-7. Google Books.
van den Broek, Marc. 2019. Leonardo da Vinci Spirits of Invention: A Search for Traces. Hamburgi: A.TE.M. ISBN 978-3-00-063700-1.
White, Lynn. 1968. "The Invention of the Parachute." Technology and Culture 9, no. 3 (Iulius): 462–67. doi:10.2307/3101655. JSTOR 3101655.