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  1. i personally use the hide and leather house in napa calif.,but they are a little pricey. of course, leather Is expensive.closer to you in massachusetts is brettuns village leather(www.brettunsvillage.com)better pricing and a lot of info on leather on their website.good luck

  3. my computer screen doesnt have that great a resolution,so i cant read it. i am going by the shape of the body. the only difference between a demon and a duster is the slots on the taillites.one is vertcal the other car horizontal .BUT they are both chrysler products and NOT chevy/gm.but who cares?

  10. yup. the cobra was built directly from the strato star patterns.made from para flite's 30/30 1.1 oz fabric . they were made at a time when para flite was not reinforcing the ribs at the b,c,and d line attachement points(l.a.p.).while this produced a canopy with less weight and bulk, it distorted the hell out of the upper surface .eventually after 100-200 jumps the ribs would fail at the b,c ,or d l.a.p.

  11. as someone who grew up in the sport( and as a kid hunted down hundreds of cutaway canopies and other miscellania) it would be a great help if the d bag were a brite color. however,nothing beats having someone eyeball it all the way to the ground and perhaps take a compass bearing on the canopy just as it touches down.then just walk straight to it.

  12. i worked at paraflite and they did indeed ship a container w/ every canopy. . the reason was that there really werent many containers available that were small enough nad the container had to trap the bag till all that nice reefing line played out. first ones were shipped in june or july of 1974 to exitus(i think).if you didnt get a container, then para flite still owes you one (LOL)

  13. any of you OLD timers remember a "smoke " product from the early sixties which basically just released flour into the air,no ignition?obviously it wasnt as good as smoke or it would have caught on and we would still be using them.

  14. AHHH...but it is also possible to have a pack closure on loops . i have seen it several times.correct me if i am wrong(after all i am an old fart)para flite i believe invented the use of closing loops for sport rigs,first introduced on the strato star main containers that shipped with every canopy.

  18. i remember when the U.S. Parachute Team was in training in 66 at snyders dz, Martine Durbin was jumping one of Pop's bags.for some reason she constantly had line twists (a lot of them)which took so much time to come out that it was affecting her ability to set up her run for the target.Gene Thacker was team leader/captain/trainer (whatever). one day he had enough and tore the bag off her p.c. ,poured gas on it and burned it.

  19. just remember that ANY sleeve should be reinforced its full length. the ones that the chute shop(north american aerodynamics) built were only reinforced for the first 5 feet or so. i have seen several where the fabric became weak enough that the sleeve ripped all the way around during deplyment .makes for a nice streamer since the bottom of the sleeve cant getr off the canopy.

  21. we had a guy that jumped at snyders dz in nj at the time.he was the spitting image of db.even smoked raleigh filter cigarettes.also some time later , a dz opened near atlantic city and put an advertisement in the local paper ,something like learn to jump.. we teach landings in water, trees ,in jail.the local fbi office paid him a visit (rumor has it).no sense of humor these feds.

  23. P.O.D. parachute opening device thats what pioneer and P.I. called them.a pod is just a d bag where the crown lines of the canopy(para commander) are used as the p.c. bridle.a pod tho, differs from a bag in that the canopy is folded into the pod in layers,one on top of the other. the folds opf canopy in a bag are s folded in on their side,from the top of the bag to the bottom.