skydiverek 54 #1 Posted December 27, 2019 Hi, I was wondering which company first used ZP material on their canopies? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
0 accumack 13 #2 December 28, 2019 (edited) Para-Flite had some Para-Plane Couds were made with Zero porosity fabric early 1970's I doubt we were the first production canopies. They were not marketed that way. Some people nick named them Crispy Critters. I think probably the Barrish SailWing was the first back in the early 1960s. Parachute DeFrance had the first modern ZP fabric that PD and others copied. Raven Industries (balloons) did some plastic film parachutes earlier than that; But there could be others. Edited December 28, 2019 by accumack adding more info Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
0 skybytch 259 #3 December 30, 2019 On 12/28/2019 at 1:48 PM, accumack said: Parachute DeFrance had the first modern ZP fabric that PD and others copied. That was the Blue Track right? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
0 accumack 13 #4 December 30, 2019 Yes, the Blue Track. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
0 riggerrob 558 #5 January 3, 2020 Parachutes de France Blue Track debuted around 1988, with Performance Designs’ Sabre in 1989. By the mid 1990s, you could not “give” away an F-111 main! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hi, I was wondering which company first used ZP material on their canopies?
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