Jul 26, 2017 | RC Skydiving
RC Skydiving or parachuting has been around since the late 80’s. It’s never been a mainstream hobby but has had a consistent following. It has specialist requirements that mean it isn’t for everyone. Most of all, the launching of the skydiver is the...
Jul 19, 2017 | DIY Projects
Here all of the pieces have been cut out and sorted into the various gores. Note: the scissors were not used to cut these out. It was all hot cut. The printed guide is invaluable. Use it to confirm what goes where. It saved a lot of potential errors. The template held...
Jun 10, 2017 | DIY Projects
The brief was to create a small skydiving parachute to scale for instruction purposes indoors For this, Paul from Skydive Wild Geese sent a retired canopy as a reference and a source of material. The first thing to do was kite it up! Getting some reference photos and...
Dec 28, 2015 | Parachutes
Ok, so I’ve made a medium size pull-down apex and it worked so well I thought I’d scale it down a bit – to a little bigger than a dinner plate. I made a rough which deployed quite nicely in the lounge one night. Then I got to thinking about a mass deployment of the...
