Canopies made in Russia

[marcwitteveen 0]

I was currious if a company in Russia are making canoppes but I could not find anything, maybe someone here can point me out to a company that makes them.

Thanks

Marc

[DancingFlame 0]

Try this:
www.paraavis.com
Only in Russian though...
Company makes pretty good tandem canopies (ST Tandem).
But, in fact, russian skydivers prefer foreign canopies (from PD and Icarus).

Some canopies are pretty good for their money. Ozone (7 cell tapered, very similiar to PD Spectre, but Spectre has much more powerful flare).
Scorpion (9 cell tapered, Sabre-Safire-Pilot class canopy) now used at some DZs here in Russia. However, I found Safire fly much better than Scorpion.
Russian 'dark horse', Warrior canopy (completely new design, quad-cell, like Onyx). I saw Warrior more than year ago but AFAIK it is still not in production. Extensive testing I believe. Better consult support@paraavis.com

[marcwitteveen 0]

Thanks,

Looks like the page is also in English http://www.paraavis.com/en/

Marc

[rhys 0]

what about the spiniker? i have jumped one of those that was made in russia, don't know too many of the details was not long after i started.

i'm coming to russia gonna jump outa helecopters cheap![laugh

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix

[DancingFlame 0]

There were two different Spinnaker designs.
First was the copy of PD Sabre (only in 120 and 135 sizes I believe). Second was a bit redesigned Sabre with F-111 bottom and ZP top skin. Both flew very similiar to a Sabre. Openings of the fully ZP Spinnaker were a bit hard (remember it's just a copy of Sabre).
Hybrid design helped with openings but performance had degraded also.
ParaAvis made a bunch of that canopy, but they are discontinued and replaced with a lot better Scorpion canopy.

I've made ~15 jumps on a Spinnaker-170 (or 175, can't remember). But that was a year ago and my w/l was ~1.0 so I couldn't find any difference between Sabre, Spinnaker or even Spectre except the openings.

[katzurki 0]

Russian manufacturers make much better containers than they do canopies (for the price).

[Nelyubin 0]

At the moment differently