VX 39 Landed at Perris Valley

[Luna 0]

(From USPA web site)

Cani Lands Smallest Parachute (05/12/04)

Brazilian jumper Luigi Cani reportedly landed an Icarus VX 39 (square
feet) at Perris Valley Skydiving, near Los Angeles, May 12. Several
jumpers have landed a VX 46, but Cani and Icarus Canopies believe
this is the smallest parachute jumped and landed to date. The
smallest known commercially available parachute is the Icarus VX 69.

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[kelel01 1]

Any idea what his wingloading was?

I mean, unless he weighs 4 pounds, it's amazing (scary?), but I'm still wondering . . .

Kelly

[lawrocket 3]

Any witnesses or accounts.

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[VanillaSkyGirl 6]

I have seen Luigi, who is tiny, but STILL...OMFG!!! How does that even work? Is there a picture of the canopy or video/pics of Luigi in canopy flight. How did he test this canopy for the first time? Was it a high altitude hop'n'pop for the first flight or what?

[mcrocker 0]

Damn, My GI Joe skydiving action figure has a bigger canopy!


I wonder if he did a 270 hook from 13k feet an swooped in at 100+ MPH

[ManBird 0]

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[lawrocket 3]

Thanks, manbird!

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[dgskydive 0]

I was watching him fly it last night at PErris. Jeb was flying his wingsuit relative with Luigi under canopy. The visual of the smoke trailing behind the canopy and the wingsuit was awesome.

They almost docked on the last jump yesterday. The where close enough that Luigi was sticking his foot out daring Jeb to dock on his foot!

After he cutaway from it on the second to last jump of the day, it was funny to watch this little rag spin around and get lift and actually climb higher after cut away. It took almost 15 minutes for the canopy to come down.

I didn't get to seehim jump it this morning abut rest assured that Luigi landed it with out any problems. The reports I have so far say it didn't swoop for shit but he was able to run it out a bit and stand it up! F---ing Luigi ROCKS!

To give you an idea of how small the canopy is, I held it up and could almost reach both ends with both hands. It was maybe an inch or two longer then my arms from tip to tip.

I really do have a kite that is bigger then this canopy!

As far as wingloading goes. With all the weight the little guy was wearing. Luigi probably weights about 130 pound soaking wet. Add about 20 pounds of gear and 20 pounds of weight. That would but him at, at least a 4.3. I am estimating on the low side so it may be much closer to 5.0

Dom

[kansasskydiver 0]

Hmmm ya think they'll be pulling that cobalt 24 outta the closet know and try to land it?

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[ManBird 0]

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The where close enough that Luigi was sticking his foot out daring Jeb to dock on his foot!

Bastards! Zaz (under his 68) and I got to this same point... it's hard to let those grippers go and maintain the same flight. We need to beat them to it! I realize docks have happened, but the canopy pilot either used trim tabs or cutaway a very small canopy. We wanted to do one where the canopy pilot flies the canopy in a normal configuration and we dock. Soon. Soon.

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[Kbone 0]

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landed an Icarus VX 39 (square
feet) at Perris Valley Skydiving

Good news: we now know a canopy this small can be landed.

Bad news: expect a string a fatalites from posers and skygods trying to imitate this stunt.

Are any photos available?

[hookitt 1]

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Bad news: expect a string a fatalites from posers and skygods trying to imitate this stunt.

Not Likely

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[atsaubrey 0]

I was getting a repack at Perris over the weekend and saw it hanging up being "worked" on. They got pissed when I tried to use it as a hankerchief and blow my nose....I had no idea it wasnt one. It was interesting when Luigi figured up my wingloading on it though, I'd be pushing 10:1 NO THANKS!

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[VanillaSkyGirl 6]

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Bad news: expect a string a fatalites from posers and skygods trying to imitate this stunt.

Not Likely

[diablopilot 2]

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Why was Luigi wearing 20 lbs. of lead?

To acheive the specific wingloading he was looking for.


When "superloading" canopies there is a major drop off in perfomance at specific loadings. Say on the Xaos 27 cell 88 it seems to be at loadings over 2.5-2.6.

When loaded again even higher (in my personal example 3.0) the performance comes back to some extent. This may just be due to airspeed, but in any event it seems to. I'm no expert, but I've flown Xaos's at loadings from 1.8 to 3.4 and that's my experience. Between 2.6 and 2.9 they are much harder to bring to the ground in a controled fashion than at 3.0 to 3.2.

Changing the size of the canopy also changes these sweetspots a little bit.

I imagine a similar thing occurs with the VX line. (Don't have a lot of VX jumps)

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[Vertifly 0]

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Dom, I have a question about part of your post. Why was Luigi wearing 20 lbs. of lead?

I was kinda wondering the same thing. Weight like this under a napkin like that could mean the difference between a 70mph swoop and a 100mph swoop. What is up with that???

It must be quit a site to watch this thing coming in for landing with Luigi underneath. Amazing....simply amazing!

[VanillaSkyGirl 6]

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Why was Luigi wearing 20 lbs. of lead?

To acheive the specific wingloading he was looking for.


When "superloading" canopies there is a major drop off in perfomance at specific loadings.

Thank you! That is exactly what I thought. Yay, my canopy control ground school coach taught me something new...thanks Tigger!

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[piisfish 140]

That guy Luigi is incredible... Seen him in Out of the Blue, and the VX 46 project was already soooo awesome...
Guess my Advance Thetis 4.4 (sq meter, eq.44sq ft approx) is too big to jump now
Someone mentioned he had a kite bigger that the 36... I flie kites bigger than my main (which is a 139) and bigger than mains of many people here... Biggest kite I fly is a 250 sq ft...

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[hookitt 1]

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When "superloading" canopies there is a major drop off in perfomance at specific loadings. Say on the Xaos 27 cell 88 it seems to be at loadings over 2.5-2.6.

When do you thing the performance comes back with say... a VX 60?

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oh.. if I read to the end I'd have seen ...

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I imagine a similar thing occurs with the VX line. (Don't have a lot of VX jumps)

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[diablopilot 2]

But you could ask hooknswoop......

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[Quincy 0]

Cani Lands Smallest Parachute (05/12/04)

Brazilian jumper Luigi Cani reportedly landed an Icarus VX 39 ... Cani and Icarus Canopies believe
this is the smallest parachute jumped and landed to date.

[mdrrus 0]

Luigi was going to have an exit weight of about 175 pounds. He is much lighter and had to wear weights. I was at Perris Sunday when he was doing the rigging to jump the VX46. They were going to do a few jumps where he would fly it then cut it away (it was the third canopy). When everything was right he would jump and land it.
I have to say that canopy looked very small!

[rhino 0]

Where are the photos....

[diablopilot 2]

Since it was a GoFast Project, you could check with them....

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[ltdiver 3]

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Where are the photos....

What...you think they'll post them for free on-line?

ltdiver

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