New Reserve parachutes developed ..

ADVANCE now offers two newly developed reserve parachutes, the NANO (Dwarf) and PROTECT II, which feature very fast opening performance.ADVANCE, Swing and U-Turn GmbH have formed a strategic development partnership in the field of reserve parachutes. These three companies are combining their project resources, so as to be able to bring new and topical technology on to the market at attractive prices as a result of intensive research and development.The most important feature of a reserve is its short opening time. To achieve this extremely fast opening behaviour the PROTECT II’s Rapid Inflation System (RIS) comes into effect:- the parachute has special bands which make sure that the canopy edges around the base don’t lie flat on each other. The precise pre-tension of these bands create air channels which enhance the opening qualities in the first split seconds of deployment. This means that the PROTECT II opens as fast as a small canopy, but provides the low sink rate of a large one.PARATEX RS TX40The light fabric of only 40g/sq.m is specially formulated to meet the specific demands of a reserve parachute by combining just the right relationship between weave density and weft. Paratex RS TX 40 uses both single and double polyamid threads, with the double threads cleverly worked into the weave. This creates an extremely light material with high strength and long life.