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Giant Leap Rocketry announces soft deployment SLIDER |
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2003 Archived News by Giant Leap Rocketry
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Sunday, September 07, 2003 |
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BATON ROUGE, Louisiana USA — Giant Leap Rocketry announces the release of the SLIDER, a soft-deployment device for your parachute. Chute deployment is the most violent phase of flight. Excess speed tears & shreds chutes. The SLIDER softens deployment by opening the chute more gradually & stops the chute from "popping" open.
According to Ed at Giant Leap Rocketry, at the instant of deployment, it slides down the parachute shrouds, making the chute open a fraction of a second later — enough to help prevent the sudden pop that leads to shredded parachutes.
The SLIDER is made of ripstop and tubular nylon. It attaches to your existing parachute. The Slider-3 is meant for parachutes with an odd number shroud lines (example: SkyAngle), while the Slider-4 is meant for parachutes with an even number of lines (example: Giant Leap Spherachute Plus). The SLIDER can be easily moved from one chute to another. The Giant Leap website contains a mpeg video of a SLIDER equipped chute successfully deploying at 50 mph.
To see the SLIDER from Giant Leap, go to the "WHAT'S NEW" section on their website at: http://www.giantleaprocketry.com. |
