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Again, we did the same experiment with the fish scale and found that it took somewhere between 2 and 3 lbs at maximum to pull out the main parachute. Here is what the canopy looked like after the deployment bag was pulled off:
One big benefit of this configuration is that the parachute acts like a spring and wants to push itself out of the deployment bag, which is probably why it took so little force to pull it out. In comparison, the parachute pushes circumferentially on the deployment bag in method 1. This will increase the hoop stress on the deployment bag and expand it, thereby making it more difficult to pull out of the cup, and then making the parachute more difficult to pull out of the bag.
Method 3 Rolled
A little lumpy
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