Calvin19

its virgin no more.

crew doing well. we got some new freinds. its great when BASE jumpers act like BASE jumpers and not skydivers.

withdrawal sucks man. but it will clear out in a few weeks. This crew is 4 strong, I have 400ish skydives, 160BASE, but none in the last 6 months. Others- 1-200 sky, 8 BASE 2-120 sky, 0 BASE 3-800 sky, 0 BASE. but, me probably landing in the drink once or twice, i hope the boat works.

and oh yeah, 2 of my crew has never BASE jumped before. but we are staying at the holiday inn express.

and oh yeah, is the boat dude running? that would be great.

So, my boy has a brand new Warlock/Dagger that i just packed for about the 6th time in the last 2 years. and huh, he has never jumped it. nobody has. is there any other warlock/daggers that are virgin? I figure dorkzone is the best place to find out.

so, im in my hotel room at twin falls. anybody else here?

Also, i have a few hundred meters of type E thread, what i use for hang glider sails. wondering what is used in Pilot Chutes? Containers? Canopies? Canopies are E i hope, Harnesses are type FF methinks, but i dono. I dono if my machine can handle much bigger that E, but, ill figure it out.

so... where can i buy large mesh fabric? all i can find is fine/high drag stuff

Gin nano... i have not seen it in person, but i have seen pictures of it does it has a skydive setup or or paraglide setup? i bet its skydive, its simpler and easy to use.

To answer your question no, it wouldnt do much at all. i bet its unmeasurable, but its amazing how much drag a line has going through the air at speed, in the earlier eras of aircraft designing they did not realise that biplanes were slow as shit because of drag from flying/landing wires. i guess they thought the same way, "what could 5 square inches of total surface area do for speed?" but, yeah, we aint goin nowhere fast, thats why those swoopy people pay 250USD for new thin as shit linesets. its also amazing how little of a difference a 1mm line has between a 4 mm line when it comes to drag.

good things about cascades- weight bulk paracite drag bad things- makes a weak point mid line makes the lower part of cascaded line take 2, 4 or 5 lines worth of force might* cause tension knots/stuck sliders in paragliding it would cause uneven airfoil while trimming, as in pulling down front or rear riser on parachutes. makes replacing lines EXTREMELY ANNOYING and dangerous for a non-educated rigger. *im no certified rigger. but i know... things.

that was the reason i started this forum, i paraglide, and those lines cascade spanwise for a lot of reasons, spanwise cascade would give a swooping canopy an advantage over cordwise cascaded canopies... but it would have more paracite drag. -SPACE-

I would argue there are 2 sides that argument. cascades cause snaggin problems, i think i have had a stuck slider skidiving a few times due to the cascades. I thought of it while i was packing my blackjack for the 20th time, the lines seem to bow out, at the cascades if the canopy is loaded unevenly, and it is loaded unevenly A LOT while opening, and by unevenly i mean some lines have tension, others dont at all. if all lines had a small amount of tension, there would be no problem with cascades to me. my point is that i think continuous lines on the whole canopy would stop a lot of tension knots stopping a slider, maybe thats why the performance canopy guys have them, but i know of other reasons why they would have that. when a slider is coming down a line set, it seems to get hung up all the time at the point were the lines cascade. not that its worth changing, it would suck to have continous brake lines just thinking.

i did not know that... those are expensive however... hmmm. thank you. i didnt think there were any reasons other than performance that they were cascading.

so... other than less weight and parasite drag, what are other advantages to mid-height cascades on base canopy lines? is there any skydiving/base canopies with contiguous lines all around?

I kitesuff as well, cool websight. i probably wont build the canopy, but if i did, i would make a simple 5 cell. eventualy i want to modify a blackjack with zp, with 10 risers. it would follow a paraglider riser setup, with no point other than research really.

your sister said she has seen bigger, but none of them could move like me. my girlfreind is still jealous of your sister.

so, me being the weirdo bastard that tries to fix everything that aint broke, ... i think i can design better closing pins, and better ways of attatching them to a bridal. I think i can build a better pilot chute with a totaly new design. and i already have 2 base rigs, im doing this for fun. .. .. .. -SPACE-

ok... so im not building a metal rig to get past security, im building it so i can feel accomplished. i have had a lot of arguments with freinds that a fully functional 2pin rig cant be made without metal of some kind. and i can use my machine to build the harness, i have built webbing slings for rock climbing on this machine that hold about 20KN, (around 4000lb) one just has to be creative and knoledgable (obviously not about spelling) when it comes to sewing the best tape pattern without a heavy duty machine. shit, i have made a 15kn sling while sewing by hand. I assume the rig will only take about 2 weeks. i have never built a harness, or fingertrapped lines, but i have built sails for hang gliders. the 300 hours was building a very complex sail for my own design hang glider. i still fly it. edited to add... "shit, i have built a hang glider using everything i got from ace hardware. (nothing else, even the harness was tied rope) and useing no sewing machine, i used polyurethane tarp, and sewed the edges to the frame by hand. that took awhile, but she flew, i made a huge flight on that wing. granted, i had no sewing machine than, i was 16. oh yeah, and i crashed it when i was 17. i kept some peices, but in the next 2 years i built 2 more hang gliders. with a sewing machine and production harnesses

hmmm. good point. and i guess i just hate velcro closed rigs, shrivel flaps and stuff. and the solid chest strap was th plan all along, the leg loops were going to be solid as well, i have been able to take my gargoyel off and on with only releasing the chest or leg straps, so either will be solid. this is also why i insist on the cutaway. i also think that my cutaway design mounted on risers is a much better idea than the cutaway cable running through the rig.

I have watched dropzone, a lot until i actualy started jumping. but a smugglers rig, that would be easy. i need a challenge. i want a fully functional non metalic rig. in fact, i can get pretty close to all fabric methinks. no velcro though, i hate velcro.

anybody know where i can get a few GOOD rolls of parapak, cordura, dacron, spectra/dacron thread, F111, Pilot Chute ZP, Baloon ZP, all webbing and tape needed to build a rig, bridal, pilot chute, and possibly, a canopy. my idea is to make the whole thing with no metal, not for technical reasons, just to see if i can do it. the hardest part should be the cutaway cable, i dont want to use just plastic, i need some spectra sheathed with structural plastic or something. I also have no bar tach machine, only a med-duty single needle machine. i have spent about 300 hours on it in the last 3 years, but i dont know about making the canopy without automatic parallel stitching. i dont even know about making the canopy at all. oh, and i need ceramic pins. or make some out of carbon fiber. i mean, what the hell else am i going to do?

hmmmm.... i have a lot of PC ideas, not to mention a ton of sewing experience, and a fuckton of spare time these days so, maybe i will.

I meant a pilotchute that has been damaged from actual deployment useage, as in the sail blows out and tears from a deployment. I started this forum because i dont think it has ever happened, Ripstop is Extremely strong, especialy the stuff used for BASE pc's. and in the size of sail a 48" or smaller PC is useing, the total drag is probably a good distance away from the failure drag needed to blow one up. I have used a 46" PC at terminal, seemed to work great, just hurt my neck a bit. anybody know of a PC destroyed from normal useage? CH