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Yes, I still have the plans, they are available with either metric or imperial measurements. Please contact me at richard.gays@ntlworld.com for further details if required. Currently four riggers have the plans with the intention of building one each, but I am not aware of their progress. Dick Gays

After a month, no one has got near it, it is something I saw in Ronaldsway Airport on the Isle of Man. It is called the Eider Duck but it never flew.

Thank you for pointing me to two interesting aircraft I was not aware of. The XBD-2 was a four seat low wing pusher with a three wheel u/c. The one in my photo is a single seat with a single main wheel plus a single nose wheel. The Mick Dukt N7XR is a two seat pusher with canards and wing tip fins, looks like a copy of the VariEze. Please try again.

I hope this one will be difficult to identify

All the panels (and there are only six of them) are completely flat with all edges a dead straight line. Only when inflated are they curved.

Hello Ludwig, Yes I often get place names wrong, getting confused between my canoe slalom days and skydiving days. Your Slots 3 might have had more use than mine. I only did 115 on Slots 3, never counted the other people who tried it. It also went on loan to America twice, once to Rigging Innovations and once to Pioneers, no idea how many times it was tested but Pioneers asked me nicely if they could re line it which they did. I do remember Barry ringing me up about all the malfunctions asking what was wrong. Between us we got it sorted but I can’t remember what the problem was, it must have been about1982. I did have one jump on yours probably the following year. After all this time, one or two people are getting interested in it. One rigger in Canada is making two of them and another rigger in the UK recently requested the plans. I regret now not doing more work on Slots 3. I just simply made it; it worked so I left it as it was. I had intended to experiment with altering the gap of the slots; after all I wasn’t likely to get it just right straight off. What put me off making alterations at the time was the thought that I might not be able to tell the difference. Only years later did I think that if I made changes to one side only, I would know if it was better or worse by which way it turned “hands off” I had quit jumping by then so it never happened.

And what the L is this (see photo)

To be more accurate that was Slots 3, a single layer square parachute I designed though that one was made by Barry Jeffries when he was the rigger at Bad Lipstatt. Yes I dis also make the Olympic Rings PARASHAPE, also two other PARASHAPES, WALLY and The Volkeswaggen Logo. All three PARASHAPES and Slots 3 are presently at Tuege though I think only Slots 3 has been jumped. More pictures should be available under my profile. Dick Gays D1310.