Parafoil progress…

Sophia took this picture yesterday as I was cutting the nylon.

The new parafoil is now in pieces, cut from the bright blue material.  1 front piece,  1 back,  18 fins (6 each of 3 patterns) and 11 aerofoil pieces – 31 pieces of ripstop nylon in total.

Hot cut using  a soldering iron.  Sophia has added about 5 meters of bias binding.

I need to do some maths to work out the location of some lines that will help distribute the towing  tension, but figured drinking a beer has precedence.