How do I make a toy parachute that falls for the longest time?

How do I make a toy parachute that falls for a long time? Any suggestions on the design of the parachute, materials to use? Thanks!|||the easy way to make a toy at home would be to use dental floss for the lines and a thin plastic sheet or very, very light fabric for the canopy. I would make a round. Building a RAM air canopy would be way to much work. the round canopy will just be a circle of material with a small hole cut in the center. this center hole will allow air to spill out in the center and will let the canopy descend straight down. without it the canopy will wobble back and forth to spill extra air out a side. Look up some pictures of millitary drops for good images of round canopy. flame jumps use them a lot too. I know there is a good picture of a kid jumping a paracamander on the pics of the week page on www.skydiveradio.com.





real parachutes were made of silk, now they are made of F111 or Zero Porosity fabric. Check out www.performancedesigns.com for a site of one of the best manufactures in the business. I just one of their Spectre canopies and love it.





if you ever want to try skydiving yourself I strongly encourage you to do it!








There are a couple websites you need to check out to get good info on skydiving.





http://www.uspa.org is the website of the United States Parachute Association, the governing body for sport parachuting in the United States. There is a list of member dropzones on the website along with all sorts of great info on the sport.





http://www.dropzone.com is another great resource for everything about skydiving and some BASE too.





http://www.skydiveradio.com is just fun and a good place to feel like you鈥檙e at the drop zone when you can鈥檛 physically be there.





Make sure that you contact the drop zone you want to jump at directly. There are a few scams out there, one of which is 1800skyride. They will take your money and send you to any dropzone they want too but only about three dz鈥檚 in the country except skyride tickets. So please, please, please contact the dropzone directly.





The tandem is a great jump. I鈥檇 get video too. I made one tandem a little over two years ago and came back to start student training (good info about student training at uspa.org) and got my license. I鈥檝e been jumping for two years and have a few hundred jumps. I love this sport and I sincerely hope that you鈥檒l become a full time skydiver and I鈥檒l be able to make some jumps with you at a boogie!





Blue Skies!|||You can find toy parachutes around but to make your own is cheap and easy. Even though most chutes are round you can make a square chute out of just about anything. The larger the chute and light the weight the slower the parachute will descend. I've used sheets of newspaper, handkerchiefs, even sheets of toilet paper. Tie or tape string, yarn, dental floss, to each corner and then tie it together. Make sure you keep the lines the same length or the chute will spin or glide. You can use anything for a weight like a toy soldier or washers or whatever. Experiment and you should be able to get the results that you want. If you're wanting the fold the chute and throw it, you'll need to make sure that you have enough weight to make it deploy.


Good luck and hope this helps.|||alright what your gonna want to use is a helium balloon





inside theparachute but making sure the parachute


maintains balance so your gonna want to make a revolver


inside the chute and connect it to a small helium ballon


this will make it fall very slow|||Hope this helps-

















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