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http://manifestmaster.com/parachutist/big1972_08.jpg wow, I was browsing a couple of covers. 1972. This must have been just about the third picture ever taken with a fish-eye lens... At the time you had to lock the mirror up, and weren't abel to compose the picture through the viewfinder. I think there was a thingy you could attach to the flash mount to have a rough idea of what you were shooting...

Sorry guys! I saw this on a hotel tv while travelling. I didn't have internet connection, and by the time I got home and looked it up, a week had gone by and I'd completely changed seafood species! Sorry to bother...

Hi, I saw a Nat Geo documentary on the mars rover program, and apparently they had this problem with the chutes called "Shrimping". The lines wouldn't get tangled, and the chute wasn't streaming, but the circular canopy would kind of fold on itseld, with several points on the circular canopy bunching around the centre, without touching. Of course this reduced the available drag. The engineers acted like they had no clue why this was happening, but that might conceivably have been staged for the camera's benefit (you know, a bit of a cliffhanger). Anyway they ended up restricting the vent hole and the problem went away. The chute was of a design called "Disc-Gap-Band), I don't know if the problem occurs with any other kind of canopy. All google searches turn up either references to Forrest Gump, or to the sexual practice... If anybody has any information on this, it would be greatly appreciated.

Hi, I've never sky dived (well, i tried jumping off tables with plastic bags when I was six, but results where somewehat underwhelming), but I had a question regarding parachutes I've been unable to find info about elsewhere, and I was directed here from another forum...