Editing BASE jumping (section)

=== Precursors ===
[[Fausto Veranzio]] is widely believed to have been the first person to build and test a parachute,<ref> Francis Trevelyan Miller, [https://books.google.com/books?id=MdDNAAAAMAAJ The world in the air: the story of flying in pictures], G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930, pages 101–106</ref> by jumping from [[St Mark's Campanile]] in [[Venice]] in 1617 when he was more than 65 years old.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=TM2EAAAAIAAJ ''He's in the paratroops now''], Alfred Day Rathbone, R.M. McBride & Company, 1943, University of California.</ref> However these and other sporadic incidents were one-time experiments, not the actual systematic pursuit of a new form of parachuting.