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My landings have been a bit fast of late. Picked this up at a yard sale today for $10. A chute used to recover test Stinger missiles. Kevlar drogue chute pulls the main chute out a tiny stowage bag where it is all stuffed in and it is attached to the missile with a Kevlar line.

So attached to my tailwheel rod. Just crack the canopy and chuck it out on fast landings. :-)

Could also do some more spin testing at farther aft CG’s and if I get too close to an unrecoverable flat spin – use it as a spin chute to help recover.


(Oh I so wish this was April 1st! It’s true enough that I picked the chute up for $10 and it was from a Stinger test. The rest – I just tied it on and let the wind do its thing. No plans to actually do this.)

Next step up from what the hang gliders are using.

http://www.christian-ciech.com/safe-lan ... gue-chute/

You could attach that chute to the canopy hinge-pin then using a longer rope (just longer than your hing-pin) also attach it to the canopy. Now you'll have a system to quickly jettison.
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Hi,

I flew hang gliders for 10 years, logging over 500 hours. I used a chute to shorten the landing distance. It worked! Once I was able to land in a 200 by 200 foot field which was surrounded by 20 foot trees. Ahh, fun times!

Just looked at the picture a bit closer. Must be a beginner. His hands should be on the downtubes not the cross tube. (His hands should be on the vertical tubes not the horizontal one.) For a good landing you need to increase the angle of attack, ie flare, by raising those hands up. ala Superman.

BRS wrote:You could attach that chute to the canopy hinge-pin then using a longer rope (just longer than your hing-pin) also attach it to the canopy. Now you'll have a system to quickly jettison.
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Now that's an interesting idea...... ;-)