Technik

How do they fly

How can this work? By Henk Lunshof, Lake Wales, 18-11-2023 Unfortunately, we had another day of being weathered out by the one week in the year that Florida has experienced this kind of weather. There were only two lucky smaller formations that got the well-timed blue hole, but it was not big enough for the planned […]

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Air Foil

Aerodynamics

CF-Aspects of Aerodynamics in Larger Formations It’s all about wing loading A ram air parachute like the PD Lightning or the Triathlon for instance is an air foil. As we will see, the aerodynamics of a ram air parachute are quite complex. The glide angle of such an air foil is invariant as long as

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