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Merlin
How do I make a toy parachute that falls for a long time? Any suggestions on the design of the parachute, materials to use? Thanks!
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the easy way to make a toy at home would be to use dental floss for the lines and a thin plastic sheet or very, very light fabric for the canopy. I would make a round. Building a RAM air canopy would be way to much work. the round canopy will just be a circle of material with a small hole cut in the center. this center hole will allow air to spill out in the center and will let the canopy descend straight down. without it the canopy will wobble back and forth to spill extra air out a side. Look up some pictures of millitary drops for good images of round canopy. flame jumps use them a lot too. I know there is a good picture of a kid jumping a paracamander on the pics of the week page on www.skydiveradio.com.
real parachutes were made of silk, now they are made of F111 or Zero Porosity fabric. Check out www.performancedesigns.com for a site of one of the best manufactures in the business. I just one of their Spectre canopies and love it.
if you ever want to try skydiving yourself I strongly encourage you to do it!
There are a couple websites you need to check out to get good info on skydiving.
http://www.uspa.org is the website of the United States Parachute Association, the governing body for sport parachuting in the United States. There is a list of member dropzones on the website along with all sorts of great info on the sport.
http://www.dropzone.com is another great resource for everything about skydiving and some BASE too.
http://www.skydiveradio.com is just fun and a good place to feel like you’re at the drop zone when you can’t physically be there.
Make sure that you contact the drop zone you want to jump at directly. There are a few scams out there, one of which is 1800skyride. They will take your money and send you to any dropzone they want too but only about three dz’s in the country except skyride tickets. So please, please, please contact the dropzone directly.
The tandem is a great jump. I’d get video too. I made one tandem a little over two years ago and came back to start student training (good info about student training at uspa.org) and got my license. I’ve been jumping for two years and have a few hundred jumps. I love this sport and I sincerely hope that you’ll become a full time skydiver and I’ll be able to make some jumps with you at a boogie!
Blue Skies!
the easy way to make a toy at home would be to use dental floss for the lines and a thin plastic sheet or very, very light fabric for the canopy. I would make a round. Building a RAM air canopy would be way to much work. the round canopy will just be a circle of material with a small hole cut in the center. this center hole will allow air to spill out in the center and will let the canopy descend straight down. without it the canopy will wobble back and forth to spill extra air out a side. Look up some pictures of millitary drops for good images of round canopy. flame jumps use them a lot too. I know there is a good picture of a kid jumping a paracamander on the pics of the week page on www.skydiveradio.com.
real parachutes were made of silk, now they are made of F111 or Zero Porosity fabric. Check out www.performancedesigns.com for a site of one of the best manufactures in the business. I just one of their Spectre canopies and love it.
if you ever want to try skydiving yourself I strongly encourage you to do it!
There are a couple websites you need to check out to get good info on skydiving.
http://www.uspa.org is the website of the United States Parachute Association, the governing body for sport parachuting in the United States. There is a list of member dropzones on the website along with all sorts of great info on the sport.
http://www.dropzone.com is another great resource for everything about skydiving and some BASE too.
http://www.skydiveradio.com is just fun and a good place to feel like you’re at the drop zone when you can’t physically be there.
Make sure that you contact the drop zone you want to jump at directly. There are a few scams out there, one of which is 1800skyride. They will take your money and send you to any dropzone they want too but only about three dz’s in the country except skyride tickets. So please, please, please contact the dropzone directly.
The tandem is a great jump. I’d get video too. I made one tandem a little over two years ago and came back to start student training (good info about student training at uspa.org) and got my license. I’ve been jumping for two years and have a few hundred jumps. I love this sport and I sincerely hope that you’ll become a full time skydiver and I’ll be able to make some jumps with you at a boogie!
Blue Skies!
How do you go about sampling kids and baby products like strollers and electronics etc?
Christen T
I see ppl on the internet getting to try out big products like strollers and riding toys etc totally free and just have to write a review on hte products and get to keep them. Anyone do that for totally free without buying a membership somewhere or somewhere with a cheap membership that actually works? I'm interested in doing this but IDK any legit places to go to do it and I'm leary about buying memberships. Thanks
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You have to live in a major city then look up Market Research firms, then call them to see if they conduct focus groups and are accepting applications for new participants
I used to be signed up to an agency in NYC but in 5 years only participated in 2 groups as they have a database of thousands of people and look for very specific demographics for each group
I had one that was for athletic shoes. We didn't know in advance what the group was (you rarely do) but about 50 people were invited in and asked to fill out a questionnaire with our age, ethnicity, income level, education level then it had a lot of questions about our exercise routines, which sports shoes we had bought before, gym membership, etc. We then turned the applications in, waited about an hour, then they called 10 of us to participate in the group and the other 40 were sent home.
We were then put in a room with a two-way mirror and talked about why we chose particular brands of cross trainers - the fit, style, performance, name brand, price, advertising campaigns, celebrity/athlete endorsement, recommendation from a store employee/personal trainer/friend/family member, etc. Then we were told to give our size and they mailed us a pair of plain white shoes with no logos. We had to wear them working out for 2 weeks then were invited back to give feedback
I did another group where we tried flavors of a new drink (like Snapple -- in fact it might have been Snapple but you never know the company name that's running the group). For that one we didn't get to keep anything. We were just paid about $50 to taste various cups with letters on them, choose which of the 4 versions we liked best, guess what the flavor was supposed to be, if we thought it was too sweet or not sweet enough, if we would ever buy it, if we would recommend to friends, etc
A friend got to do one for facial self tanners where she got a free tube of self tan for face to try out and give her feedback
You have to live in a major city then look up Market Research firms, then call them to see if they conduct focus groups and are accepting applications for new participants
I used to be signed up to an agency in NYC but in 5 years only participated in 2 groups as they have a database of thousands of people and look for very specific demographics for each group
I had one that was for athletic shoes. We didn't know in advance what the group was (you rarely do) but about 50 people were invited in and asked to fill out a questionnaire with our age, ethnicity, income level, education level then it had a lot of questions about our exercise routines, which sports shoes we had bought before, gym membership, etc. We then turned the applications in, waited about an hour, then they called 10 of us to participate in the group and the other 40 were sent home.
We were then put in a room with a two-way mirror and talked about why we chose particular brands of cross trainers - the fit, style, performance, name brand, price, advertising campaigns, celebrity/athlete endorsement, recommendation from a store employee/personal trainer/friend/family member, etc. Then we were told to give our size and they mailed us a pair of plain white shoes with no logos. We had to wear them working out for 2 weeks then were invited back to give feedback
I did another group where we tried flavors of a new drink (like Snapple -- in fact it might have been Snapple but you never know the company name that's running the group). For that one we didn't get to keep anything. We were just paid about $50 to taste various cups with letters on them, choose which of the 4 versions we liked best, guess what the flavor was supposed to be, if we thought it was too sweet or not sweet enough, if we would ever buy it, if we would recommend to friends, etc
A friend got to do one for facial self tanners where she got a free tube of self tan for face to try out and give her feedback
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