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so, a freind asked me to sew his tailpocket into his canopy for him. NOT FOR BASE JUMPING, for skydiving.

the canopy is really old, but jumpable fine. I dont want to tear the trailing edge apart. its a rascal 202, how bad would it be if i just sewed the topskin to the bottom skin?

I see no hug problam with it. maybe topskin tension stuff, but even that i doubt.

thoughts?

It's a Rascal, don't waste much time on it. There's a certain yellow Raven I, That's been jumped that way for a few hundred jumps so far.

Remember there is a lack of reinforcement on Rascals, don't let him BASE jump the canopy.

dont worry, the canopy WILL NOT be based. period.

but for skydive, i think it will be fine.

THANKS!

what could possibly go wrong?

the world could collapse in on itself creating the first sub-massive black hole not only killing every living thing but eating the souls of all humanity as well.

but thats not likely to happen is it? i have a tempo 250 with a tail pocket stitched the top skin to the bottom skin and ive used it for maybe 40 base and 40ish skydives. so far no world colapse, nothing like a sub-massive black hole every living thing is not dead and the souls of humanity are just fine as well.

*edited to add*
obviously i mean the souls of humanity are just as fine as before the date of manufacture of the canopy.

Use reinforcing tape on the inside and curve the stitching at the top corners to avoid a 90° sharp turn (point loading).
take care,
space

hey, good idea. thanks!

if you unstitch the tail you will probably find that the just the outer piece of fabric of the folds around the load tape is worn. You can open the tail carefully and close it back up wiht the help of some extra strips of f-111 as reinforcement or even ripstop tape as reinforcement before you sew the tail back together.

will you be at bazils tonight? cya there.

ps- listen to tim before you listen to me.

-a

Why don't you want to unstitch the tail...it takes like a whole minute or so.

The Rascal is actually a pretty well built reverse with a very cool tail continous x-porting...I know a guy who has more BASE jumps than most pussies out here on a Rascal including some super low urban ones...and all coupled with soft landings..but I know no BJ no BASE jumping nowadays...fucking pussies!

i dont want to unstitch it because the only machine i have is a single needle/bobin.

and im lazy, and if its only for skyhops, its not worth it.

ya... ill be at bazils. if i remember how to get there.

This used to be done quite commonly for CRW canopies. It shouldn't be a problem.

Michael

just finished it. it looks great. I used 2" velcro, made the useable pocket size 6x9", 2" gap for primary stow, 1.75" radius curved seems on inside corners to allow seem equalization.

thanks kids.

You don't need to un-stitch the Tail Seam to add Tail Pocket. Just sew Tail-Pocket directly though (top bottom skin) with backing on back side.
It is perfectly acceptable. That location And % surface is also acceptable I do believe by 'Poynter manual' as OK. If I am not mistaken Poynter even allow a greater% amount of surface area in tail section to be repaired by patch strait through at Tail area.
For BASE, I have done for people and jumped several tail-pockets strait though top-bottom of canopies with out a problem. Structural integrity by repair/Patch or tail Pocket or even both at same time. That for down by the tail seam Pressurization is 'little' and canopy repairs sew strait threw top-bottom skin with patch/Tail pocket are Good-to-Go.
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edit; to add
If I saw this a few days ago. I would have sent you a dimensions/pattern for tail pocket,
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