blindfreddy

What price are they going for?

Here's a sleeved canopy beeing packed, different container tho, http://www.youtube.com

Turns out I know the owner of the porter,had a chat to him yesterday,commercial pilot who bought the porter spent heaps of coin doing the plane up setting it up for para opps then to lease it & have some dickhead pull it apart & steal it, you have to be kidding me!! Someone from the mother land must know something about this or know the area where it was taken. Come on guys let's get this plane back to the rightful owner & kick the crap out of the guy who did it.

Whats your wing loading ? I have had three crossfires & the only one that was twitchy was the one I was loading @ about 2 - 2.1 ... sold it & went slightly bigger problem solved

Thanks for the effort councilman much appreciated

i haven't bought one yet for 2 main reasons;1- I'm hearing 50/50 reports on the openings really nice versus tearing a new one & the second thing is that i've contacted a few dealers & no one wants to give me a price or return e-mails.I'm in australia & it must be all too hard. what i'm aiming for is a 104 loaded @ 2.2 so i want it to have nice openings

The canopy is rated to 250 lb & 150 knots & was manufactured in 1996 assembled, stuck in a cupboard & never seen again till last week WHAT THE...?

Photo's as promised its a little hard to see the vents in the canopy Photo 6 & 7

My wife is the packer & has been for 20 years but she's never seen anything like this. I recall someone mentioning in a thread somewhere that they dont have pilot chutes but this one is in a paracushion 303 with a pilot chute & the spider slider is very funky I'll see if i can upload some photo's

I,ve got a Strong emergency rig with a sleeved 28' aerosport canopy in it & wondering if anyone has a packing manual for one? I've googled it & sent an e-mail to strong with no luck yet, can you help me out?, i,ve never seen anything like this before!

I also would like to thank L&B for outstanding service,I had an optima 1 that after regular use, starting cracking frome being inside the helmet.E-mailed L&B they replied within 24 hours saying send it over.I did but within a week & a half there was a brand new one on my doorstep in Australia.no way on earth they recieved my broken one before they sent the new one. Kudos to you guys L&B

Yeah ive read that sizing chart & i would have liked something a little more accurate ( no offence UPT). I wouldn't have thought that this would be to hard.I've sent e-mails to Icarus x 2 ...no response !!!

So it looks like the Neos packs up about 1 1/2 sizes bigger than non crossbrace? maybe neos 104 similar to Katana 120? Yes/no ?

So... then... it packs up nearly the same? But then the MX will take an Xaos 98 @ optimal sizing so it must pack up nearer that dont you think?

Well thats interesting " a manufacturer that doesn't know or maybe care how big there canopies are'? Thanks for the size estimates, not flying one yet,looking at downsizing from Katana 120 & fitting it in a Icon I3.Hows the openings on yours & what windload you at? Is it a good slider system?