Parachute Laboratories Inc

🪂 Parachute Labs (Jump Shack) | Since 1969 | World’s safest parachutes. Home of the Racer. Sport, tandem, military. DeLand, FL

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🌏 Parachute Laboratories Expands into Southeast Asia 🪂

Parachute Laboratories is proud to announce the appointment of Heimdall Defence as our exclusive authorized dealer for Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam.

This strategic partnership combines PLABS’ high-performance personnel, specialized, cargo, and aerial-delivery parachute solutions with Heimdall Defence’s established regional presence and experience supporting military, police, intelligence, homeland-defence, and special-operations customers.

Together, we will expand access to dependable, mission-ready parachute systems while strengthening local sales, technical support, and customer relationships across these four important markets.

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Parachute Laboratories Appoints Heimdall Defence as Exclusive Dealer

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🪂 Twisted Riser Syndrome—Why Cutting Away Can Sometimes Be Difficult

A cutaway system that operates normally under ordinary conditions may become significantly harder to activate during a highly loaded, spinning malfunction.

This article from the Parachute Laboratories archives examines suspended-harness testing conducted to better understand the problem. The experiments identified two primary factors that may increase cutaway difficulty:

-Side-loading and twisting of the 3-Ring assembly, increasing the load transferred to the locking loop

-“Finger trapping” of the cutaway cable as a loaded riser channel compresses around it

The article also discusses canopy control during deployment, cutaway-cable housings, cable coatings, lubrication, and equipment maintenance.

Understanding these forces reinforces the importance of altitude awareness, properly maintained equipment, current emergency-procedure training, and following the applicable manufacturer’s instructions.

Read the full technical article:

Twisted Riser SyndromeCutting Away: Why It’s Difficult Sometimes

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This week’s Featured Drop from Parachute Laboratories Inc

WASP — Water Aircrew Survival Parachute

When an aircrew emergency happens over water, getting safely under canopy is only part of the problem.

The PLABS WASP brings emergency parachute capability and post-bailout survival capability together in one mission-focused system. Designed for aircrew operating over or near water, the WASP incorporates a dedicated survival compartment and can be configured with a one-person life raft tethered directly to the parachute harness.

Depending on the mission and configuration, WASP options can include round or ram-air canopies, adjustable or non-adjustable harness configurations, static-line or ripcord activation, and alternative survival loads such as desert-survival or medical equipment.

For life-raft configurations, the raft can be deployed and CO₂-inflated while the aircrew member is under canopy, allowing survival equipment to be brought into the emergency sequence before water entry.

Aircrew survival. Parachute performance. One system.

Contact Parachute Laboratories for WASP configuration options, canopy selection, mission-specific requirements, pricing, and current lead times.

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🪂 Why Should 18 Pounds Be the Maximum Reserve Free-Bag Extraction Force?

A reserve pilot chute must generate enough drag to overcome the force retaining the free bag inside the container. If the extraction force approaches—or exceeds—the available pilot-chute drag, reserve deployment performance may be compromised.

This Parachute Laboratories technical article examines the forces involved and explains why 18 pounds should be treated as the maximum acceptable reserve free-bag extraction force unless the manufacturer specifically authorizes a different limit for that equipment.

This is important information for parachute riggers, manufacturers, technicians, and anyone responsible for evaluating reserve-container compatibility and airworthiness.

Read the complete technical analysis:

Why 18 Pounds Should Be the Maximum Reserve Free-Bag Extraction Force

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This Tuesday’s Featured Drop from Parachute Laboratories

When the normal way out is no longer an option.

Today’s Featured Drop is the Parachute Laboratories Egress System — a purpose-built emergency parachute system designed to provide a supplemental, last-resort escape capability for appropriately trained and equipped users when conventional evacuation routes from elevated structures are no longer achievable.

Built around the current TSO’d Racer harness design, the standard configuration includes a 300 sq. ft. BaseX 7-cell ram-air canopy designed for rapid, on-heading openings at sub-terminal speeds. Alternate canopy configurations and customer-specific solutions may also be available.

The Egress System can be configured around the specific application, including:

Fixed static-line deployment from an approved, engineered hard point
Trained user-initiated deployment
Specialized configurations for response personnel
Customer-specific installations based on the facility and operating requirement

PLABS can also assist organizations with system configuration, fitting, canopy selection, deployment architecture, familiarization, inspection, training requirements, volume pricing, and current lead times.

Important: The Egress System is supplemental emergency equipment and does not replace required exits, stairwells, fire-protection systems, emergency action plans, or instructions from emergency-response authorities. Users must be trained on the specific system, installation, deployment method, and approved escape location.

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🪂 NATIONAL AIRBORNE DAY — AUGUST 16 🪂

Today, Parachute Laboratories joins the airborne community in recognizing National Airborne Day and honoring the generations of American paratroopers who have stepped to the door, trusted their equipment, and answered the call.

On August 16, 1940, the U.S. Army conducted its first official parachute jump, helping validate the concept of inserting American ground forces by parachute. Eighty-six years later, that airborne legacy continues through the men and women who train, serve, and stand ready around the world.

From the earliest round parachutes and static-line operations to today's advanced personnel parachute systems, the equipment has evolved dramatically.

The commitment has not.

At Parachute Laboratories, parachutes are more than our business. We recognize the history, craftsmanship, innovation, rigging expertise, and trust that connect every generation of the airborne community.

Today we honor those who came before us, those serving today, the riggers who keep them mission-ready, and every paratrooper who has ever heard the command:

“STAND UP, HOOK UP!”

To the Airborne community — past and present:

Happy National Airborne Day.

AIRBORNE! 🪂

— Parachute Laboratories Inc

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🪂 NATIONAL AIRBORNE DAY — AUGUST 16 🪂

Today, Parachute Laboratories joins the airborne community in recognizing National Airborne Day and honoring the generations of American paratroopers who have stepped to the door, trusted their equipment, and answered the call.

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🪂 The Ultimate Parachute Rigger’s Kit - Built specifically for ram-air parachute riggers, this professional kit includes the essential tools and supplies needed for packing, inspection, maintenance, and repair—all organized in one complete package. Order your kit here:

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Compatibility and airworthiness must be determined by a qualified rigger, technician, or responsible organization.

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🔥 PLABS GARAGE SALE 🔥

T-10R-style ripcord handle assemblies are available for $95 each—only 15 in stock!

Made in accordance with Drawing 11-1-4175. Limited quantities are available, so order before they’re gone.

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Only a few spots remain!

Join Parachute Laboratories for our upcoming Parachute Rigger Course, September 28–October 9, in DeLand, Florida.

Class size is limited, so secure your place today:

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Questions: [email protected] | 386-734-5867

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