Freefalling Helmets

[shropshire 0]

Do some camera folk attach something like a pilot chute to their helmets, to slow it down, even more, if lost?

Or is this a daft idea?

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[cpoxon 0]

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Do some camera folk attach something like a pilot chute to their helmets, to slow it down, even more, if lost?

Or is this a daft idea?

The old Leo Dickinson camera helmets had pilot chutes in. You still see a few of them around.

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[shropshire 0]

Ta.



We used to watch a lot of his stuff in the Crew Room at Weston and I finally met him last year at a Paragliding Festival...

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Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[cpoxon 0]

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Question to anyone who has witnessed a freefalling helmet - did it fall in a stable attitude, or did it tumble, spin, or oscillate as it fell?

I recovered the video from the helmet and camera that came off my head. I'll dig it out and upload it when I get a chance. The helmet span so that the camera fell facing upwards towards the sky but it was spining so the camera was orbiting around the axis of the helmet, if that makes sense.

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