New Icarus canopy?

[bjornufknu 0]

Anyone heard about a new canopy from Icarus?!

d.d.s.

[PhreeZone 15]

Lots of companies have things in prototype stages. I remember reading about some of PD's old prototypes that never made it to market. They had a canopy that was specifically designed for crosscountry jumping or similar long glide rates. It was called I think the Blackbird. It never made it to production.

Some prototypes are more secret then others... the Sensei is a pretty well known canopy since in prototype stages, but I'll bet that Icarus, PD, Precision and everyone else also has new designs in testing that no one knows about.

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[skygod7777 0]

icarus is testing canopies right now. that's what i was told. but they are no where near release yet. still in the very early testing stages. i was told they had a few, but i wasn't told what design or anything that were going for, ie another crossfire type canopy, vx, fx. i have no clue.


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[diablopilot 2]

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Anyone heard about a new canopy from Icarus?!

Oh no, not again.

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[koz2000 1]

There was a post done earlier this year in which Jim Slaton told of a canopy that he used. . It was just a prototype.

http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=734655;#734655

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[GeeeeeeFly 0]

The GX...

This was recently flown at the PST by Jim...

And someone was correct when they were discussing something along the lines of a hybrid with partial cross bracing through the middle and regular cross port end cells...

Some sort of new innovation on an old idea you tell me...


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[linestretch 0]

in addition to that, the stabalizers were ram air too. I think they inflated with cross ports from the end cells. But, I could be wrong.

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[johnny1488 1]

I hear things, that they are way past early stages of develpoment, but no where near any kind of release. I hear they are sitting on it. I hear the same with PD also. I hear things.

Johnny
--"This ain't no book club, we're all gonna die!"
Mike Rome

[skygod7777 0]

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I hear things, that they are way past early stages of develpoment, but no where near any kind of release. I hear they are sitting on it. I hear the same with PD also. I hear things.

who knows, and who cares, at least i don't. me and my vx are quite happy, it would just be nice if it was a 98.3 () instead of and 85.

i know that they were supposed to be coming out with a reserve, i saw the fucker hanging on a rack at PIA, and i still haven't seen anything about it being released.

later

[johnny1488 1]

yeah, I hear ya, me and my xfire2 will be plenty busy this year. Lots to catch up on, me and her.

As for the reserve, I heard it got TSO'd, and thats the last I heard.

Johnny
--"This ain't no book club, we're all gonna die!"
Mike Rome

[skygod7777 0]

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As for the reserve, I heard it got TSO'd, and thats the last I heard.

the last time i talked to simon, he said it more than likely would be out late spring/early summer. but i haven't seen anything about it anywhere. i may just have to shoot simon and e-mail and find out.
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