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i put 1,300 jumps on the same RW Challenger 240 which was the Only brand new main, i have ever bought....
It was made By New England Parachute Company in the early 1990's...
( John Eiff, Carol Christianson, Randy Thompson, out of Conn. )
i flat packed it..
and put 800 or so, pack jobs on it , packing it on the left chord.. And then flipped it over to the right chord, and and did approx. 500 more...
F 111 fabric. original lineset.

never had a malfunction while jumping that main...
Still have it...still airworthy...
When i got it, it retailed at 1,000 dollars, custom colors but they offered a 33% discount sale. so i got it for under 700 bucks...B| split slider...
nice main... but of course , pretty large pack volume...
jt

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I put 800 on a maveric 200 that was second hand....

a further 800 on a heatwave that was also second hand

about 700 on a crossfire that had 1000 jumps on it already

A good zp canopy that is looked after should be able to do at least 2000 jumos if looked after and relined accordingly.
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1)What is the most amount of jumps that you have personally put on a SINGLE canopy?

2) What make and model?



I have over 2,000 jumps on my Icarus Omni 183.5. No holes or patches, but it has been relined a couple times.
Peace,
-Dawson.
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The Society for the Advancement of Naked Skydiving

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I was GIVEN a Sabre 1 170 that has alot of jumps on it...not sure how many but it was given to me cuz no one was jumping it.

I started jumping it on my 78th jump.....and I am still jumping it!!

no hard openings but it does open snappy....;)

"Tell ya the truth, I don't think this is a brains kind of operation."

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1)What is the most amount of jumps that you have personally put on a SINGLE canopy?

2) What make and model?

I put around 800 on my Icarus Safire2 139, still counting.
Got 2 reserve rides with it as a main, but never cut it away.:D
scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM

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I was GIVEN a Sabre 1 170 that has alot of jumps on it...not sure how many but it was given to me cuz no one was jumping it.

I started jumping it on my 78th jump.....and I am still jumping it!!

no hard openings but it does open snappy....;)



Had to buy mine, but I got my sabre I at around 50 jumps, and have so far put about 250 jumps on it. I specifically like the openings. It opens when I pull, instead of sniveling for 1000 feet or more. :)

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I switch around canopies a lot. I tend to put 200-500 jumps on the ones I own/have owned myself and like:

spectre 150
spectre 135
safire 135
safire 119
vengeance 135
fusion 120
pilot 124

Right now I own the bottom 3 plus a foil 252.

ciel bleu,
Saskia

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all you guys jumping sabre(1)'s like 2000+ times; reading through these forums, you should be dead and if not, should have like 50 times a broken back!!! :o

i put 200 jumps on that one while it had, hell knows, probably already WAY OVER 1000 jumps on it already.. new lineset at the time. opened snappy but never hard. unlike the student-canopies i used to jump. never got ONE bruise.. sure, opens fast, but never painful or uncomfortable!

i loved my sabre1. the flare, meh, not so much.

i have a new safire2 now with 60 jumps on it, and it still flies great! :)

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