250' Ft. Benning Jump Tower Video

The parachute jump tower, a familiar Fort Benning landmark, was built after soldiers trained in New Jersey on a similar tower built by the company that built parachute towers for the 1939 World's Fair in New York. https://www.benning.army.mil/airborne/airborne/tower_wk.htm

Here a dummy is being dropped during a demonstration. Usually the chute is already open at the beginning of the decent.