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Ive seen the video of the 10m2 speedflying wing, but has anyone done a tard with a smallish skydiving canopy? Not really planning on doing it, just kind of interested as to why it wouldnt work if it wont work. Hell, ive seen Calvin do a rollover with a paraglider, why wouldnt a stilleto tard work?

A Xaos 70-something was tard'd off potato bridge 3 years ago... went beautifully! Screaming downwind landing into the water next to the boat... just like he planned.

Ask BASE587. He did a parabilleject here with some stupid small kite--I think it was less than 50 square feet.

..there was a video posted in skydivingmovies but i cant find it.can you please give a link?It was great video!

pac

The one with Hookitt's Xaos tard is on here:

http://www.skydivingmovies.com/...ion=file&id=2545

Mark

Is that the jump you can see in Radix or Keen And Able?
I remember seeing 2 guys mister billing a very small canopy from the bridge and just before they hit the water one guy drops to the water.

Blues.

Great!!Thanks a lot!!

paco

The "Hot Rocks" kite was made by 736!

Michael

Yeah, I made myself REALLY popular at the bridge that day!

I can't remember...how big was that canopy anyway, geez that was over 5 years ago!

small skydiving canopy isn`t designed for low airpressure/speed, you could easily collapse the wing, suddenly you are under a spinning stilleto that will hurt, i did a rollover once with a sabre135 witch i never do again......stupid hurts!

I want to say 26 square feet. I'd totally forgotten about that, and didn't catch Tom's reference until crwper pointed it out... Fun, fun. Except for most of the sewing -- that kind of sucked.

A stilletto 120 worked pretty darn well. Took a little longer to pressurize than a base canopy, but almost perfect heading performance and a nice fast landing.

Plus if you have a line over or a tension not, the more tarp over your head the better.

If anyone cares to see the video I just added it on here.