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  1. accumack
    Nothing like fixing a vote. and on your first post no less!
  2. accumack
    I worked with Herb at pfi and was on ducks a'la orange in 1979 with mike mcnamara and jim pollard(jp).
  3. accumack
    I call bullS**t, I grew up in a house with lead paint, sprayed paint with lead ,I spent many hours in the prop blast of aircraft as a kid smelling the exhaust helping test parachutes. Lead dangers are over blown because there is money in it! No doubt there is some danger of lead poisoning but all gas had lead in it when most of us were growing up and I see more problems with today's generation than the older ones. Just my rant!
  4. accumack
    It would have problems opening, not fly well, poor flare, and if it's bad enough go into a stall and not recover.
  5. accumack
    I worked at Para-Flite and we TSO"d the reserve under c23. It is essentially a MT-1X that the military tested and approved and gave it the military designation MC-4. However if it was used in the military it may be worn out the porosity needs to be checked. If it was unused surplus i'd have no qualms about jumping it. As a matter of fact I have many demo jumps using the MT-1X system.
  6. accumack
    Some people split the tail on the Para-Flite ParaPlanes and the Cloud it offered little to no advantage and added complexity. Also a single surface flap on the ParaPlane.
  7. accumack
    Try their website http://www.parachutes-de-france.net/en
  8. accumack
    you adjust the width by the red nut in picture 5 down is wider up is narrower
  9. accumack
    The Strato Flyer was made with Para-Flite developed proprietary high fiber count 30 denier in both directions(30/30) light weight fabric. George Harris later developed his F-111 which had a lower fiber count and had less strength. Up until this time the fabric was 30 denier in one direction and 70 in the other (30/70) originally developed for hot air balloons.
  10. accumack
    It was made for the military in the 1980s by Steve Snyder Enterprises (SSE) and was based on the AltimasterII.
  11. accumack
    Ted deserves credit for many inovations; but jpads evolved from para flite's(now airborne systems) parapoint system