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Safire

Item: Safire 
Manufacturer: Icarus Canopies   (1388 Hits)
Purpose: Main 
Shape Elliptical 
Cells 9 
Fabric: ZP 
   

Description:
The Icarus Safire is an all Zero-Porosity, 9-Cell, Lightly Elliptical canopy featuring Vectran™ suspension line. It has been designed as an all round, no hassle performance canopy. The Safire gives you a solid 9-cell performance and a modern elliptical flavor, without getting radical and without requiring any special attention. It is delightfully easy to fly, with consistent openings, easy packing and excellent landing qualities.

Added: 2000-12-21 | Item ID: 1


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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Buy It!!!!!
Rated by: everymansaved (more about me) on 2007-03-21 00:00:00 (user reviews) Review ID:1770

Pros: Superb openings, great landings
Cons: None I can see!

This is an excellent canopy! It opens beautifully, is an absolute blast to fly, and forget what you hear about it not having any flare. I heard these rumors as well, and I can tell you for fact, they are not true. I usually come in double front risers, so I carry a bit of speed, but a nice smooth flare will give you a beautiful landing, with just a hint of run out at the end. It is forgiving of body position on opening, as well as packing technique.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

Amazing intermediate canopy
Rated by: freeflydemon (more about me) on 2005-10-05 00:00:00 (user reviews) Review ID:1397

Pros: openings, flare power, allround canopy
Cons: weak toogle rsponse without front risers landings, short recovery arch

I have 100 jumps on my safire 149 @1.83, it has amazing and predectible openings, good fly, nice for learn how to use your risers (front and rear), not too fast but I make nice flares on it. When you are high after a hook turn with front risers, the canopy doesn't response very good but when you have speed.... it has excellent toogle response and an amazing flare power.

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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

Excellent canopy for all levels
Rated by: cram6892 (more about me) on 2004-12-11 00:00:00 (user reviews) Review ID:597

Pros: Excellent canopy for beginners as well as for advance when lighty overloaded
Cons: Off heading dives of the nose

The Safire is an excellent canopy for all levels depending on the wingloading, a small draw back is the off heading dives on opening, but a slight rear riser pull cures all that.

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