canopy resources

[superstu 0]

thought i'd make it a little easier for people to find good info about canopy flight in all aspects. hopefully this thread will grow a little bit with people added some more links that i don't know about.
by the way there was a great article on skydive arizonas website about a year ago but now i can't find it. anybody know what i'm talking about and know hwere it is?

if you're interested in learning about canopy flight in all aspects try going to these links. if you have questions about what you're reading maybe some people will chime in and help out.

http://www.performancedesigns.com/docs/98_low.pdf

http://www.performancedesigns.com/docs/choosing1.pdf

http://www.performancedesigns.com/docs/choosing2.pdf

http://www.performancedesigns.com/docs/flylnd.pdf

http://www.performancedesigns.com/docs/survival.pdf

http://www.performancedesigns.com/docs/wingload.pdf

http://www.icaruscanopies.aero/choosing.htm

http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/bga.html

http://www.bigairsportz.com/basoman.pdf check the table of contents on this one for what you're looking.

please add more...

Slip Stream Air Sports
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[fmmobley 0]

Excellent post ! Thanks for the info.

... Marion

[bert_man 0]

http://www.lukeoliver.com/thesis/

http://www.apf.asn.au/apf_admin/downloads/hpcanopyhandling.pdf

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[superstu 0]

bump

Slip Stream Air Sports
Do not go softly, do not go quietly, never back down

[frost 1]

How about making this a sticky, moderator?

SoFPiDaRF - School of Fast Progress in Downsizing and Radical Flying. Because nobody knows your skills better than you.

[superstu 0]

bump

Slip Stream Air Sports
Do not go softly, do not go quietly, never back down

[Velopilot 0]

You can find 8 more topics, 2 from PD which Stu posted, if you click on the Safety link then Canopy Control on this website.

[Velopilot 0]

Here are a few more from www.daedaluscanopies.com

http://www.icarusnz.com/choice.htm
http://www.icarusnz.com/tricell.htm
http://www.afn.org/skydive/sta/highperf.pdf

The greatest part about the Army is that I can't figure out how to make a few clickys but they'll give me a helicopter to fly in a heart beat. My job rocks.

[Cacophony 0]

While this isn't a canopy resource, it is a flight resource. I highly recommend the book "Understanding Flight" by David Anderson and Scott Eberhardt. ISBN- 0-07-136377-7 It provides great examples of flight without the need to know Calculus 3.

[superstu 0]

ha ha ha, good stuff

Slip Stream Air Sports
Do not go softly, do not go quietly, never back down

[CanuckInUSA 0]

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The greatest part about the Army is that I can't figure out how to make a few clickys but they'll give me a helicopter to fly in a heart beat. My job rocks.

Actually I'd love to switch jobs with you. But making something clicky is pretty easy.

1) start with the url tag:

(url)

2) end it so that it's a properly formed url:

(url)(/url)

3) Add the text you want people to see:

(url)hey check this out, it's cool(/url)

4) Add the actual link in quotes in the first url tag:

(url "http://www.afn.org/skydive/sta/highperf.pdf")hey check this out, it's cool(/url)

Note: finally replace the "("s and ")"s with "["s and "]"s.

In order not to mess up the browser and how you viewed this message, I had to use "("s and ")"s to not have malformed markup tags in this message instead of the normal "["s and "]"s.

Here are your original links and if you wanted to actually view the links, just hit the "Quote" reply DZ.COM button and you will see the actual syntax used to make something clicky.

Icarus NZ choice page
Icarus NZ tricell page
High performance page

Oh and I've love to have your job flying helicopters. My job (a software developer) can suck at times. As long as my employers don't over work me, it can be a cool job when things work. But it's a shitty job when they don't

Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

[Velopilot 0]

Great Accomplishments in my life: walking, talking, potty training, and now I know how to make clickys. Watch Out World!! Thanks Steve