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Mark Kruse from Cross Keys made that rig. Luckily he was working the same shift as me, so when she came to me for a gear check I let him do it. I didn't even know where to start looking for a pin!

Mark Kruse docked on me under canopy when I had 13 jumps. Great guy. Full of amazing knowledge.

 

 

I also remember checking out a couple of those (backpack/base rigs) that Dennis made around 1999.
those thing were the shit. I mean they really looked like a small Day-Pack (backpack) nice piece of work.
I would be interested in checking out the one made from x-keys.
The one that Dennis made. Anyone, even jumpers could walk by and glance at and not be the wiser.
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how were the legstraps and stowed PC designed to be stealth?

I'm contemplating making a complete rig cover that would have the legstraps stowed into the "backpack". the second option would be to leave the legstraps out and wear pants over the leg straps. I would only need to peel off the cover before exit.

are there any pics of a smuggler rig?

I guess if they had pics it wouldn;t fool anyone anymore.

An acquaintance of mine created a smuggler system for himself that worked over his normal rig.

He bought a normal backpack and cut out the back panel and the underside of the shoulder straps. He took some plastic from home depot and sewed on his own tuck tabs. He would put his rig on [with the leg straps inside his pants] and pull this backpack over it.

The shoulder straps had no padding in them, so they would cover his rig's straps and appear "full". The tuck tabs would tuck in between his rig and his shirt, making the "backpack" and rig appear as though they were one unit.

The back of the rig would fit inside of the "backpack" and the tuck tabs he sewed in on the back would go in between the rig and the back of his shirt, once again making it appear as though it were all one unit.

When it came time to jump, he'd pull the "backpack" off and all of the tuck-tabs would undo themselves. He generally tossed it off before he jumped [it would feather to the ground at a safe speed] and picked it up once he landed. Just do up the chest strap and go for it.

He used it to get into several buildings without so much as raising an eyebrow, but lost it almost a year ago when he didn't have time to pick it up after landing.

One could put such a thing together with an afternoon, some fabric, some plastic sheeting and a carefully sized backpack.

I'll see if I can get any pictures of it.

You might have seen the one that dennis made, GS stands for gravity sports ltd. also made the vision. I saw a girl that had a tan GS back pack rig at B day

afaik, that's a gravity sports (GS) rig . . . she borrowed it from kruse . ..

although he's made *smuggler's rigs* - his last 1 was a computer back-pack

I'll post a pic of one hopefully soon. Hurricane Ike messed up a few things in my schedule. The rig is very impressive. The only drawback is that going stowed from what I recall is difficult if not impossible. Avery I believe had one. Dennis McG will be impossible to find to get comments.

I used to own a GS rig, and they are amazing. Although a little rough as there is little padding.

I used a big enough a pack to fit my rig inside, removed the back-plate, sewed a tape in the rim, added covers for shoulder straps and that's it.
You can either carry it as a backpack, with legstraps stowed in the pack or wear your rig with legstraps under your pants. Before jumping, just peel of the shell and you are good to go.