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From: eric@fluke.tc.fluke.com (Eric Anderson)
Newsgroups: rec.skydiving
Subject: Two Squares
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.163000.2062@tc.fluke.COM>
Date: 11 Jun 91 16:30:00 GMT
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This weekend I was on a jump where one of the jumpers ended up with
both canopies out at once. They were both squares. I think that
the main was a Fury and the reserve was a Raven II. 

I was amazed by how nicely the 2 canopies flew together. They were in
a perfect side-by-side formation with no bumping or oscillating.
The jumper flew them together for 5 to 10 seconds before cutting away
the main. He landed without further incident.

Was this normal, or was he lucky? The jumper didn't do anything,
(turns, etc.) to upset the status quo while assessing the situation.
"Conventional Wisdom" says that 2 squares will wrap around each other 
in this situation. 

Somebody else must have experienced this or seen it before, 
What happened to them? Did they get a wrap? or their own 
personal downplane?

Gives a new meaning to CRW, doesn't it?

Eric Anderson 
D-13286
eric@tc.fluke.com

Sometimes anecdotal evidence is all we have to work with.