These French Military Static round canopy Parachutes are available in 26ft diameter olive green or 24ft diameter white, in good used condition.
Please note that harness and cords have been removed, due to military safety regulations.
Colours: Olive green or White
French Military static round canopy Parachutes
A parachute is usually a soft fabric device used to slow the motion of an object through an atmosphere by creating drag. Parachutes are normally used to slow the descent of a person or object to Earth or another celestial body within an atmosphere. The word parachute comes from the French words para, protect or shield, and chute, the fall. Therefore parachute
actually means 'fall protection'. Many modern parachutes are classified as semi-rigid wings, are quite
manoeuvrable, and can facilitate acontrolled descent similar to that of a glider.
Although skydiving can have its thrills and excitements, it can be very dangerous too. Folding a parachute requires a high degree of skill, and
an improperly folded parachute will not deploy, causing you to fall freely to the ground.
Parachutes were once made from silk but now they are almost always constructed from more durable woven nylon fabric, sometimes coated with silicone
to improve performance and consistency over time. Originally silk was used for parachute suspension lines, but was replaced by nylon during World War II.
When square (also called ram-air) parachutes were introduced, manufacturers switched to low-stretch materials like Dacron or zero-stretch materials
like Spectra, Kevlar, Vectran and high-modulus aramids. Kevlar is rarely seen except on reserve canopies.
Round parachutes, which are purely drag devices (that is, unlike the ram-air types, they provide no lift
), are used in military, emergency and cargo applications. These have large dome-shaped canopies made from a single layer of triangular cloth
gores. Some skydivers call them "jellyfish 'chutes" because they look like dome-shaped jellyfish. Rounds are rarely used by skydivers these days.
