How do I make a toy parachute that falls for the longest time?

the easy way to make a toy at home would be to use dental floss for the lines and a thin plastic sheet or very, very light fabric for the canopy. I would make a round. Building a RAM air canopy would be way to much work. the round canopy will just be a circle of material with a small hole cut in the center. this center hole will allow air to spill out in the center and will let the canopy descend straight down. without it the canopy will wobble back and forth to spill extra air out a side. Look up some pictures of millitary drops for good images of round canopy. flame jumps use them a lot too. I know there is a good picture of a kid jumping a paracamander on the pics of the week page on www.skydiveradio.com.

real parachutes were made of silk, now they are made of F111 or Zero Porosity fabric. Check out www.performancedesigns.com for a site of one of the best manufactures in the business. I just one of their Spectre canopies and love it.

if you ever want to try skydiving yourself I strongly encourage you to do it!

There are a couple websites you need to check out to get good info on skydiving.

http://www.uspa.org/ is the website of the United States Parachute Association, the governing body for sport parachuting in the United States. There is a list of member dropzones on the website along with all sorts of great info on the sport.

http://www.dropzone.com/ is another great resource for everything about skydiving and some BASE too.

http://www.skydiveradio.com/ is just fun and a good place to feel like you’re at the drop zone when you can’t physically be there.

Make sure that you contact the drop zone you want to jump at directly. There are a few scams out there, one of which is 1800skyride. They will take your money and send you to any dropzone they want too but only about three dz’s in the country except skyride tickets. So please, please, please contact the dropzone directly.

The tandem is a great jump. I’d get video too. I made one tandem a little over two years ago and came back to start student training (good info about student training at uspa.org) and got my license. I’ve been jumping for two years and have a few hundred jumps. I love this sport and I sincerely hope that you’ll become a full time skydiver and I’ll be able to make some jumps with you at a boogie!

Blue Skies!

Toy Parachute

You can find toy parachutes around but to make your own is cheap and easy. Even though most chutes are round you can make a square chute out of just about anything. The larger the chute and light the weight the slower the parachute will descend. I've used sheets of newspaper, handkerchiefs, even sheets of toilet paper. Tie or tape string, yarn, dental floss, to each corner and then tie it together. Make sure you keep the lines the same length or the chute will spin or glide. You can use anything for a weight like a toy soldier or washers or whatever. Experiment and you should be able to get the results that you want. If you're wanting the fold the chute and throw it, you'll need to make sure that you have enough weight to make it deploy.

Good luck and hope this helps.

before each and everything, finished panic and chaos might want to envelope the passengers contained in the style of an coming near near crash. Secondly, commercial planes commute some distance too quick (350 - 500 mph) to leap out of and effectively set up your parachute. understand that maximum commercial flight fly at heights everywhere between 30,000 and 40,000 ft extreme (~ 8 miles extreme) and that is amazingly chilly up at that prime no longer to instruct the shortcoming of oxygen contained in the Stratosphere. remember, the conventional individual received't take care of to leap out of a airplane in spite of the expertise of an coming near near crash. are you able to imagine how lengthy the pre-flight education might want to be? It takes 5-10 minutes in basic terms to describe how seatbelts and emergency exits artwork. A parachute education speech might want to easily no longer be feesible...ever. strong question regardless of the truth that.

Hope this helps-

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alright what your gonna want to use is a helium balloon

inside theparachute but making sure the parachute

maintains balance so your gonna want to make a revolver

inside the chute and connect it to a small helium ballon

this will make it fall very slow