Who was Domina Jalbert;explain his inventions

Domina Jalbert was born in St-Michel-des-Saints (Quebec). Still in his youth, his family moved to Woonsocket (Rhode Island) where he received American citizenship. An early aviation pioneer, Jalbert obtained in 1927 private pilot license no. 626. Growing up with a passion for kites, he conceived huge advertisement kites (with the help of his mother at the sewing machine). With war approaching, he was hired by the United States Rubber Co. for the design of barrage balloons that defended London against air attacks. His first major invention, the “kytoon”, came from this period. A combination of “kyte” and “balloon”, it has since been used for aerial photo, radio antenna deployment, atmospheric research, the lifting of heavy logs, etc. Jalbert founded in 1949 the Jalbert Aerology Laboratory, soon involved with parachute design. In 1953, flying his Beechcraft airplane, Jalbert had a sudden inspiration: why not build a parachute with the shape of a wing? So came to be the “parafoil”, a flexible wing with cells open to the flow of air, generating lift. Granted patent in 1966, the parafoil generated immediate interest and was considered by some as the most radical departure in parachute design since Leonardo de Vinci. The parafoil (nicknamed a “flying mattress”) was rapidly adopted by the American parachute team Golden Knights.
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Domina C. Jalbert
has made the most radical departure
in parachute design since Leonardo da Vinci!

The creation of the parafoil is based on a background of fifty years of work, play and study in the field of aerodynamics. Jalbert came upon his revolutionary discovery of the parafoil, by simply observing various sizes and configurations of kites, balloons and parachutes, since the age of five. Flying kites was a life time hobby for Jalbert. Naturally Jalbert was attracted to general aviation as well. He was the 626th person to receive a pilots' license in the United States, in the year 1927.