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Sabre

Item: Sabre 
Manufacturer: Performance Designs   (1770 Hits)
Purpose: Main 
Shape Square 
Cells 9 
Fabric: ZP 
   

Description:
The Sabre provides soft, consistent on-heading openings. At higher wing loadings, it exhibits more responsiveness to your control inputs and additional speed, while at lower wing loadings providing a longer control range and more forgiveness.

Added: 2001-01-10 | Item ID: 17


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Sabre 1
Rated by: bzreel01 (more about me) on 2007-09-05 11:22:19 (user reviews) Review ID:1863

Pros: Very nice control in all aspects very forgiving as well.
Cons: Must add pocket slider to insure soft openings

This canopy has treated me very well I own two of them 135's. I have had the best exp. with these I hear some stories about how they open hard but, if you add a pocket slider you will get very nice snivels. Rolling the nose doesn't hurt either the only hard opening I ever got was when the nose wasn't rolled. So to sum it all up roll the nose and get a pocket slider and everything will be ok. Blue Skies

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Rated by: BHawks (more about me) on 2007-09-03 09:27:50 (user reviews) Review ID:1862

Pros: Its MY canopy, easy to fly, good first canopy
Cons: Opening can spank you

I have a Sabre 210 that is my first canopy. I like it. Being used to student rigs and rental gear, this has so far offered me a downsize from the 285 student gear to the 210. It gives me some nice performance, its easy to pack (for me) controls are sensitive but not too much for a low time jumper such as my self. I read so much about the hard openings, my first jump on the canopy spanked the living day lights out of me, like a reserve pull. I read about the new slider from PD, it is rather large, that with a few tricks I learned about pro packing I have not had a problem yet. I look forward to wearing this canopy out.

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

Sabre
Rated by: drudchen (more about me) on 2007-06-19 16:47:48 (user reviews) Review ID:1827

Pros: Great flare, forgiving, great control range, excellent glide
Cons: brisk openings

Jumped Sabre 190, 170, 150, 135, 120, and now getting myself a 107. Very nice canopy. Can be both forgiving and agressive at the same time. Quick turns, opens on heading most of the time, very INsensitive to body position on opening. Dives well with front riser inputs, but has a pretty short recovery arc. Very nice flare, long lasting lift before the stall. Flies well on rears, great glide, easy to come back from long spots. Very predictable canopy overall. My openings are usually quite nice, but I guess you can attribute it to the low deployment speed. I'm pretty light and usually deploy at 100ish mph on my belly

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