This is the ugliest canopy i've ever seen

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I swear, that landing looked painful. I wonder what the openings are like?

The opening was fast but not a slammer.

Mine opens fast because it's a reserve Dactyl. That's correct, the Daftyl is TSO'd as a reserve. Mine doesn't have the nose slider the RW Dactyls have.

[gjhdiver 0]

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This was posted awhile ago. I think he said he cutway then landed with his reserve.

Nobody cuts away my Dactyl ! Here's the landing from that jump.

A nice PLF works wonders for the Dac.

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Great shots!

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[riggerrob 643]

Trivia point: there is also a Russian-made rogallo reserve called a PZ-81. It has no d-bag, just an X-slider attached to the pilot chute via a very long bridle.

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what is the surface of that wing ? flew a 25 sq meter (approx 250 sq ft) NASAWING powerkite, and with very low wind it would already give lots of lift.

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[phoenixlpr 0]

I've have 3 rides on a russian made reserve called PZ-81.
It's a triangular too.

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[RossDagley 0]

Which was more painful, the landing or Cams tooth removal?

[GraficO 0]

dactl...
Every year we put on an annual "Water Boogie".. so beach landings in the desert and water landings in the lake... intentional.

This event is usually where all the "weird gear" come out to play.

If you're interested in coming out it's the weekend after Labor Day every year at Elephant Butte lake in New Mexico.

All sorts of rounds, MT1X (modifieds), and the dactl... lots of fun if you're up for a different experience

visit http://www.skydivenm.net if you're interested

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One of the canopies made on the evolution from rounds to squares. Wish I had some extra cash around to pick it up...I've wanted to jump one for ages. I did get a jump on a similar wing, called a Delta 2. Hands down scariest jump of my life. Only reason I didn't chop was because my reserve was a belly wart 22 ft flat that I'm pretty sure hadn't been repacked for a year or two. I wasn't the brightest jelly bean in the bag when I was young, but I was tough.

My father had a Delta 2. Serial number 2. We sold it to a guy out west that had an Air museum. I wished I would have kept it so I could donate it to the museum being build next to the new USPA building.

From my father's account as a test jumper. He said the delta 2 was messed up enough that they mal'd like 70% of the time. lots of his buddies got hurt or killed under them. He is a rigger, he kept modifying his when ever they could find out what would make it mal. So that one he had wasn't an original because of all the mods. His buddy chopped serial number 1 over the gulf of mexico during a jump at Galveston, TX.

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[mikkey 0]

The Germans used the "Kohnke" in the 60's and 70's - I think it was static line only.

Talking about ugly....

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The Germans used the "Kohnke" in the 60's and 70's - I think it was static line only.

Talking about ugly....

The Russian 4 way CRW team uses some sort of reserve that looks like delta, teradactyle, or Kihnke.

Hell if I would.

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The Russian 4 way CRW team uses some sort of reserve that looks like delta, teradactyle, or Kihnke.

Hell if I would.

There is some good logic to using a non-wing/drag only type of reserve for CRW, especially if it uses a free bag. If you can't get rid of entangled canopies, you don't have to worry about inducing a down plane with a round reserve.

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The Russian 4 way CRW team uses some sort of reserve that looks like delta, teradactyle, or Kihnke.

Hell if I would.

There is some good logic to using a non-wing/drag only type of reserve for CRW, especially if it uses a free bag. If you can't get rid of entangled canopies, you don't have to worry about inducing a down plane with a round reserve.

Makes sense, but from what I know fo those type wings, they are prone to mal. I could be very wrong. I probally am. I don't think that they would use them if they didn't work. I wonder what sort of improvements were made since they first came out.

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Check my previous post. You my find a link to PZ-81 that you were talking about.

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Mine opens fast because it's a reserve Dactyl. That's correct, the Daftyl is TSO'd as a reserve.

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Makes sense, but from what I know fo those type wings, they are prone to mal. I could be very wrong. I probally am. I don't think that they would use them if they didn't work. I wonder what sort of improvements were made since they first came out.

Dactyl looks like the original Rogallo wing. PZ-81 have the same plane shape, but it actually fricative canopy so it`s profile is triangle with almost flat top.
CRW teams use it because it is harder to get this wing entangled, but that is matter to discuss.
PZ-81 is somewhere in the mid between Rogallo wing and ParaCommander or UT-15.

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Makes sense, but from what I know fo those type wings, they are prone to mal. I could be very wrong. I probally am. I don't think that they would use them if they didn't work. I wonder what sort of improvements were made since they first came out.

Dactyl looks like the original Rogallo wing. PZ-81 have the same plane shape, but it actually fricative canopy so it`s profile is triangle with almost flat top.
CRW teams use it because it is harder to get this wing entangled, but that is matter to discuss.
PZ-81 is somewhere in the mid between Rogallo wing and ParaCommander or UT-15.

That platform won't be used for CRW because the performance is not as good as a square.

Also the PZ-81 is a reserve and you really shouldn't do CRW even if you could with a reserve.

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That platform won't be used for CRW because the performance is not as good as a square.

Also the PZ-81 is a reserve and you really shouldn't do CRW even if you could with a reserve.

Don't forget that a trianlge is not flying together with a sqaure.

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Don't forget that a trianlge is not flying together with a sqaure.

Are you sure about that?

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[phoenixlpr 0]

I meant that you have to cut-away before deploy a PZ-81.

That was a nice stack anyway.

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Don't forget that a trianlge is not flying together with a sqaure.

Are you sure about that?

Nice. There is no way the top canopy could dock on the bottom or do pin on base pin. The stack would have to be built only that way.

Now since I have typed this I bet there is a photo where the triangle platform is pin or number 3 or 4.

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The stack would have to be built only that way.

That stack was built in 1978/79 and we used a dactyl on top because be couldn't figure out how to catch a square. Its a dactyl, Stratostar, Stratostar, StratoCloud.

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The stack would have to be built only that way.

Awesome. I bet those were the days.

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i remember seeing a picture where one of these dinosaurs were jumped at bridge day a few years back.