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    A video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJjdcDnMpUI&feature=youtu.be A previous post with pics attached - http://www.dropzone.com/forum/Skydiving_C1/Skydiving_History_%26_Trivia_F21/Pics_and_Footage_P4318545/
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    Not sure of the exact connection but they were made by Irvin weren't they ? The attached shows Snyder as a distributor of the end product though.
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    Craig has done a great job and NASA just put up a link on one of their Neil Armstrong pages - http://crgis.ndc.nasa.gov/historic/Neil_Armstrong#Photos
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    Check out the current post in this forum "Historical research work on AAD " which has a link to a great book in draft, in Spanish, which covers many other AADs. http://www.bubok.es/libros/207351/EQUIPOS-DE-ACTIVACION-AUTOMATICA-DE-PARACAIDAS-75-ANIVERSARIO-19362011 The author is on dz.com and is a treasure trove of info on the older AADs And there's some pictures of the FXC8000 and Kap3 here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/vintageparachutegear/sets/72157628885066953/
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    You might be interested in the below blogspot on the Delta 2 Parawing which has been put online by ex-Red Devil Craig Bulman http://www.delta-ll-parawing.com/
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    There was a British version of the Russell Lobe too. Anyone know the differences / similarities / relationship between the two?
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    Here's some pics of a Sparrow in a dbag that was on ebay just before Christmas
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    I have just received confirmation that the GQ TAP and Dominator are very similar canopies, the difference being the intended, respective, military or civilian use.
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    Attached are 3 more files on the Dominator. I may be taking this thread off topic, but I do believe the Dominator and GQ Mk1 TAP are closely related with the Dominator being the sport version, the TAP being a military variant. The attached files are an advert from 1967, plus an article from a 1967 edition of the BPA's Sport Parachutist Magazine. The files for the article are quite poor resolution here to get them within dz.com's allowed file sizes. I have not come across any intact and surviving Dominator canopies, they seem to be as rare as Jumbo Mk1 PCs. This may also be a good time to point out that the BPA will be putting their full set of magazines, starting in 1964, online in the not too distant future. The article posted here is from the August 1967 edition.
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    There was a previous thread on the GQ Dominator which was a large PC type canopy from the late 1960s. Here is the link http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=3994473;search_string=dominator;#3994473 Also attached here a picture an advert for the Dominator from 1969. I think the Dominator may have been the civilian name for a similar canopy. It is not clear from the pics of the TAP at the start of this thread, if it has a pulled down apex Lemoigne style or if it is just a regular circular with lots of holes and some stabilisers?
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    Is this site/link still active?- I would love to see the old covers. Andrew
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    Nice! We've been collecting pictures of skydiving patches for the BPA Archive which will be a long time coming, so here's some more to add to Pat's - http://www.flickr.com/photos/vintageparachutegear/sets/72157622910628577/
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    And a whole selection of capewell and other canopy releases http://www.flickr.com/photos/vintageparachutegear/sets/72157622676844920/
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    I seem to recall Henny Wiggers has a Mk2 PC converted to a Mk1, stamped as a Pioneer factory conversion. Calling Holland.....
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    No idea. Does this help?
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    More pics
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    I was kindly enough provided with some footage and pictures of our vintage jumps last weekend at Langar, UK, so thought I'd share here. Footage by Darren Walsh at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJjdcDnMpUI&feature=youtu.be Pictures by Steve and by Tony Danbury - attached The Red and Yellow Canopy is a 1991 Russian UT-15 The Rainbow Colours canopy is a 1973 EFA Papillon The Red and Black Canopy is a 1971 Mk1 Para-Commander
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    Pioneer were still picturing and listing the MC-4 (Military Para-Commander) on their website in 2009, so they were available for a lot longer than we might imagine. Though you probably had to be a government to buy any. In 1975 the attached from the PI catalogue shows a Jumbo as $95 more, at $650, than the price for a Mk1. Nowadays a Mk1 doesn't fetch much, but that Jumbo certainly did and quite rightly as its a rarity and that one was in great condition.
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    Anyone got any information on jumping the Piglet main? There is one on ebay right now - Piglet 2
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    I acquired a 1967 KAP-3 last week, so have added some pictures to my Flickr Collection
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    I have a limited number of these rings, PM if you are still looking.
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    Thanks for the comments, you are very welcome ; we all look forward to seeing pictures of your Slots3 and more here in the forum!
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    Hi, There are enough subtle differences for the multicolour rig not to be a Stylemaster. The bungees alone would mean it's likely not to be a Strong rig ; but I compared it to this Stylemaster and concluded it's not one. The matching harness is very likely to be homemade as Jerry pointed out. The red, white and blue rig on the Pioneer Superpro Harness doesn't seem to match anything in Poynters that could have been from a major manufacturer. Andrew
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    Hi Jerry, They both look very well made and professionally built - though the harness on rig2 is a bit of a home made design - so I thought they may be shop built. They're much better made than the UK made 'home mades' I've come across over the years.