BASE jumping a homemade round parachute

[colinl 0]

So, there's a monkey I know of... Not that it's mine or anything, mind you... Anyway, that monkey tried parachuting about fifteen years ago. At this time the technology wasn't anything near perfect, and Monkey gave up after trying to jump with plastic groceries bags.

Now Singi-Singea (it's his name. He's from France.) wanted to try again, this time with professional gear, that is to mean : a home-sewn round parachute ! After the long engineering phase came time to test the brand new canopy.

The first tests were quite disappointing. Streaming malfunctions, tensions knots, line entanglements... Thankfully he managed to track beautifully and land on soft pillows each time - which is the only reason he's still there to share the joice of his first successful experience!

Finally it was decided that static line jumps would be more easy at first. The static line anchor has been provided by my girlfriend Clo, always willing to help - as long as noone's looking. And little monkey made his first jump, and it has even been filmed.

This is not perfect yet. Monkey insisted on getting a high-performance canopy (round... yes...) about 1.5 square feet; and as monkeys can't flare, he's getting hard landings. Well.His choice!

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Monkey didn't jump ...he was pushed

[hobbes4star 0]

no no, it's not pushed it is incouraged

if fun were easy it wouldn't be worth having, right?

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Monkey see monkey do do

[colinl 0]

Did I scare anyone with my title ?
Here are three pics of my jumper monkey. In the third one you can see the "sliders", which were down for this low jump.

[hobbes4star 0]

what, no stainless??

if fun were easy it wouldn't be worth having, right?

[LuvToFly 0]

I hope you at least had a get-away car waiting for him.

"The helicopter approaches closer than any other to fulfillment
of mankind's ancient dreams of a magic carpet" - Igor Sikorsky

[freethefly 6]

I'm calling PETSA ( People for the Ethical Treatment of Stuffed Animals ) on you. You're in BIG trouble.

"...And once you're gone, you can't come back
When you're out of the blue and into the black."
Neil Young

[bazelos 0]

Oh no! Not PETSA! They will make you pray to god chicken and godess cow! Stuffed god chicken and stuffed godess cow, that is.

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

[mccurley 1]

Perhaps he could take some lessons from Grover shown here just about to unpack

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