#parachutes — Public Fediverse posts

"Yellow" is a song by the British #rock band #Coldplay. The band wrote the song and co-produced it with British record producer #KenNelson for their debut album, #Parachutes (2000). The song was released on 26 June 2000 as the second UK single from Parachutes, following "Shiver", and as the #leadSingle in the United States in November 2000. "Yellow" reached number four on the #UKSinglesChart, giving #Coldplay their first top-five hit in the United Kingdom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRP72Ib2e9I

The Tunnocks Teacakes are deployed. #parachutes #ArtemisII

"Yellow" is a song by the British #rock band #Coldplay. The band wrote the song and co-produced it with British record producer #KenNelson for their debut album, #Parachutes (2000). The song was released on 26 June 2000 as the second UK single from Parachutes, following "#Shiver", and as the #leadSingle in the United States in November 2000. "Yellow" reached number four on the #UKSinglesChart, giving Coldplay their first top-five hit in the United Kingdom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7mlB-adMBc

Enhancing #Parachutes by Instrumenting the #Canopy (#EPIC) is a #NASA project led by the Armstrong Flight Research Center to improve the safety and reliability of #Supersonic parachutes used for planetary missions, particularly to #Mars.

https://knowledgezone.co.in/kbits/6969fd72261c3aa9ec6367c0

@johncarlosbaez

Love this little bit of history... #Beavers on #Parachutes! (#Idaho 1948)

Kirigami Parachutes

In kirigami, careful cuts to a flat surface can morph it into a more complicated shape. Researchers have been exploring how to use this in combination with flow; now they’ve created a new form of parachute. Like a dandelion seed, this parachute is porous, with a complex but stable wake structure. This allows the parachute to drop directly over its target, unlike conventional parachutes, which require a glide angle to avoid canopy-collapsing turbulence.

When dropping conventional parachutes, users either have to tolerate random landings far off target or invest in complicated active control systems that guide the parachute. Kirigami parachutes, in contrast, offer a potentially simple and robust option for accurately delivering, for example, humanitarian aid. (Image and research credit: D. Lamoureux et al.; via Physics World)

#fluidDynamics #kirigami #parachutes #physics #porousFlow #science

Polytechnique engineers design low-cost, Japanese kirigami-inspired parachute

Press release: https://www.polymtl.ca/salle-de-presse/en/newsreleases/kirigami-parachute-suitable-humanitarian-missions-unveiled-nature-magazine
Article: https://montreal.citynews.ca/2025/10/02/japanese-kirigami-inspired-parachute/
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Des ingénieurs de Polytechnique ont conçu un parachute à faible coût inspiré du kirigami japonais

Communiqué de presse: https://www.polymtl.ca/salle-de-presse/communiques/devoilement-dans-la-revue-nature-dun-parachute-kirigami-adapte-aux-missions-humanitaires

#Polytechnique #Parachutes #Kirigami

"Inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami, researchers in Canada and France have designed a parachute that can safely and accurately deliver its payloads when dropped directly above its target. Tested in realistic outdoor conditions, the parachute’s deformable design stabilizes the airflow around its porous structure, removing the need to drift as it falls."

https://physicsworld.com/a/kirigami-inspired-parachute-falls-on-target/

#Physics #Parachutes #Kirigami

This is not new of course, and many attempts to urge the govt to act on this rort have gone to the graveyard. After all, asking #politicians to cut out a lucrative side hussle post Parliamentary duties is never going to happen. That ex-polies get a job is expected of course. That these jobs might entail executive level positions in companies with govt contracts is par for the course. But finding their way into highly remunerated #political #lobbies, that, in my view, is a red line not to be crossed (it’s the shortest step from there to govt corruption).

This report will go nowhere, as others have before it. No govt will push through legislation to curtail the power of #Lobbyists. The only way to change the rules on golden #parachutes is to fight for it in the Courts, Constitutional or otherwise. And who is ever going to mount such an assault on the #PoliticalClass?

“The bad news, for the rest of us, is that a favoured career path for ex-pollies involves peddling influence for powerful clients with their former colleagues, often behind closed doors. Lobbying has become big business.”

#LobbyingReform #AusPol
Read more:
https://newsapp.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-22/calls-for-greater-scrutiny-over-political-lobbyists/105678762

I've just posted possibly the geekiest video I've ever made. After a convo/meeting a while ago with Mads from #CopenhagenSuborbitals, I had a vision of a decent CAD approach to design, testing and manufacture of their ballute parachute design, so I just made a quick video stepping through it using @FreeCAD and @inkscape However, it's generally of use to people making complex 3D stuff from fabric! #sewing #parachutes #rocketry #opensource Video is here on my @MakerTube https://makertube.net/w/sV4ojsVKcDQ1umShPssVft

#Paras jumping from #ShortsSkyvan #CFARA over #WestonontheGreen today. It was fab to get a closer view than I get from home as they jumped from about 1,000ft #Canon1100D + 300mm lens #Skyvan #Parachutes #Paratroupers

#Paras jumping from #ShortsSkyvan #CFARA over #WestonontheGreen today. It was fab to get a closer view than I get from home #Canon1100D + 300mm lens #Skyvan #Parachutes #Paratroupers

▶️ gra na zimno - spadochrony

w sam raz do pracki

🎶 #muzyka #music #ColdPlay #Parachutes

🎶 From the moment I wake
'Til the moment I sleep
I'll be there by your side... 🎵

#nowspinning
#vinyl
#00sMusic
#Parachutes
#Coldplay

There’s even been a “Parachute murder”. It happened in 2010 when two female Belgian skydivers fell in love with the same man. Els "Babs" Clottemans was found guilty of murder when she sabotaged her rival’s parachute.

10 facts about parachutes.

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2024/10/12-october-parachutes.html

#Parachutes

RAF Parachute Display at Suffolk Show [Day 1] (29/05/2024) [2/2]

Note: I have some conditions when it comes to my photography works, please read here: https://www.facebook.com/RochelleK1994/posts/pfbid034Bv2emjgf6iNoUZnATQajyzbyuGmvickuQ5rTKbCzHiiwkyQxsTKCQBTDpEP2TCnl

#photography #photographer #britishphotographer #suffolkphotographer #creativephotographer #photographyisart #eventphotography #RAF #royalairforce #RAFFalcons #parachuteregiment #parachutedisplay #parachutejump #parachutes #suffolkshow #suffolkshow2024 #ipswich #suffolk #eastanglia #visitsuffolk #eastofengland

RAF Parachute Display at Suffolk Show [Day 1] (29/05/2024) [1/2]

Note: I have some conditions when it comes to my photography works, please read here: https://www.facebook.com/RochelleK1994/posts/pfbid034Bv2emjgf6iNoUZnATQajyzbyuGmvickuQ5rTKbCzHiiwkyQxsTKCQBTDpEP2TCnl

#photography #photographer #britishphotographer #suffolkphotographer #creativephotographer #photographyisart #eventphotography #RAF #royalairforce #RAFFalcons #parachuteregiment #parachutedisplay #parachutejump #parachutes #suffolkshow #suffolkshow2024 #ipswich #suffolk #eastanglia #visitsuffolk #eastofengland

To fly stably, parachutes need to deform and allow some air to pass through their canopy. In this video, researchers investigate kirigimi parachutes, inspired by a form of paper art that uses cuts to create three-dimensional shapes. After laser-cutting, these disks are dropped — or placed in a wind tunnel — to observe how they “fly” at different speeds. Sometimes they flutter or bend; other shapes elongate in the flow. (Video and image credit: D. Lamoureux et al.; via GoSM)

https://fyfluiddynamics.com/2024/05/kirigami-parachutes/

#2024gosm #drag #fluidDynamics #parachutes #physics #science #solidMechanics

Never to late to dream and make those dreams come true

https://www.pictorem.com/548850/Dandelion%20Parachutes%20Vertical%20.html

#art #artist #artgifts #artshop #artwork #ContempoaryArt #fediart #mastroart #mastadonart #fediartshop #artbooster #BuyIntoArt #FallForArt #AYearForArt #FediArtShop #SouthJerseyArtist #Photography #creativetoots #JoinIn #parachutes #dandelion #wildflower #BloomScrollling

wou PUNAISE, aujourd'hui je viens de faire mon premier saut en parachute 🪂
Et vu que j'avais pas de gopro, j'ai essayé de décrire le truc ici :
https://humanize.me/dehors/parachutisme.html

#parachutes #sauteurs

#OnThisDay, 21 June 1913, Georgia 'Tiny' Broadwick becomes the first woman to parachute from an airplane. She goes on to complete the first known premeditated freefall by anyone at all whilst training WW1 pilots on how to jump from planes.

Read more, and see one of her parachutes, at the Air and Space Museum. https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/georgia-%E2%80%9Ctiny%E2%80%9D-broadwicks-parachute

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #HistoryOfFlight #Parachutes @histodons

@GottaLaff

So the company will:

Go #bankrupt

#Protect institutional shareholders and board members

Make sure upper management get #golden #parachutes

... And will get bailed out by #taxpayers for all the rest

.....

Same as it ever was

Spent all day in a primary school show and telling the large #rocketry stuff and then each group made and test dropped some #parachutes!

Main #parachutes!

#Orion