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Kirigami-inspired parachute design promises pin-straight, low-cost descents every time
Gosselin explained that the parachute’s unique inverted bell shape is crucial to its performance. The kirigami cuts stretch ...
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Kirigami parachute suitable for humanitarian missions stabilizes quickly and doesn't pitch
A team of engineers from Polytechnique Montréal report a new and unique parachute concept inspired by the Japanese art of ...
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How to make a homemade parachute
It's time to learn how to make a proper parachute, it's one of the easiest projects of all times, cheap as well. So we will drop it from a drone because it's big, normally I will throw it myself, but ...
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Polytechnique engineers design low-cost, Japanese kirigami-inspired parachute
Researchers at Polytechnique Montreal have created a concept for a parachute inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami, one ...
Nothing useless can be truly beautiful, 19th-century textile designer William Morris once said. Now, a team of engineers at ...
A team of engineers from Polytechnique Montréal reported today in Nature a new and unique parachute concept inspired by the ...
If you have a fear of heights and find yourself falling out of an airplane, you probably don’t want to look up to find your parachute full of holes. However, if the designer took inspiration from ...
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