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Sabre

Item: Sabre 
Manufacturer: Performance Designs   (1947 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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0 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

sabre 1
Rated by: mrbiceps (more about me) on 2009-08-03 01:18:58 (user reviews) Review ID:2224

Pros: flies and flares great
Cons: openings

I recently brought a sabre 1 with 200 jumps on it. It opened hard for my liking so I had a bigger slider made up that measured 33 x 30 inches. Now the openings are very very nice. It was the best $150 I have ever spent. Now I can trash pack it in 5 minutes and it always opens very softly. The flare in it is great and it does some great surfs. Very responsive in the turns (170 loaded at 1.3). Man you can pull some crazy gs in a hard turn.

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Sabre 190 @ 1.11
Rated by: Justin_Mac (more about me) on 2009-07-24 05:07:13 (user reviews) Review ID:2219

Pros: good flying good landing canopy
Cons: not as responsive as other canopies, wierd brake design

I have put several jumps now on a nice Sabre 190 that I bought with 500 or so jumps on it. It does not open hard compared to student gear...but it opens harder than my Golden Knights PD 235 C. It Flies smoother and faster and has a longer flater landing arch than the 7 Cell PD, and I like that...I jump both canopies interchangeably and like the flexibility, different characteristics and opportunities presented by both canopies. v/r Justin

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12 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

great beginner canopy
Rated by: Fdriver (more about me) on 2009-05-28 02:09:41 (user reviews) Review ID:2189

Pros: On heading, soft opening, good beginner main
Cons: Occational hard opening

At about 35 jumps I bought a sabre 170 as my 1st canopy, been jumping solo 230 and pilot 190 prior to the purchase. considering weight to surface have a wingloading of 1.16 and it is great to fly. I actually got my A and B license using this canopy. the openings are soft and on heading, however you need to pay a lot of attention to the pack job, in particular to nesting the nose in the pack and making the cocoon. if at this point you loose a bit of focus, you'll be prone to a hard opening. as to flying the sabre, it is great, still being a rectangular canopy it is really responsive on the controls. I can surely recommend this canopy as a starter for those who are looking for their 1st rig.

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