Chiron Parachute

THE IDEA
Evaluating the wing designs present on the market has made us decide to develop a completely new glider, granting improvements in both, safety and performance.

THE CREATION AND THE ELLIPTICAL SHAPE
There may be some doubt about the elliptical shape - that is what we can report whilst the PPC market investigation process -, wrongfully the layout form has often been connected with instability. Nowadays elliptical wing shapes are standard technology in wing designs in all aviation developments. Stability can be achieved by appropriate profile shapes, proper lift distribution, proper aspect ratio etc. etc. The elliptical shape rather increases stability.

THE TESTING
The wing has been long term tested for safety and general behavior to suit for the PPC. All kind of relevant maneuvers have been proceeded and flight tests have shown exceptional flight stability.
For maximum safety, an official load test (in Germany at the German Hang gliding association) has been proceeded and we could succeed with a dynamic test (shock test) of 4.400lbs and a static test (load test) of 5.808lbs. The canopy has not shown any single damage and we even could have gone higher with loads but the testing equipment was not sufficient enough to reach more loads. With a soft wing, these have been the highest loads ever achieved at official testing.

REMARK ON THE CANOPY'S SIZE:
Due to the advanced airfoil technology, the wing creates much more lift and the size cannot be compared to the size of the common square canopy. If the regular square canopy is meant to have 500sqft, then, by using the same method of measuring, the CHIRON would then have approx. 410sqft, i.e. the CHIRON is approx. 90sqft.smaller in layout area. The difference between the layout area and the projected area on the CHIRON is much smaller than the same difference on the square canopy. That means, the CHIRON creates a relatively bigger projected area in flight. The performance of the canopy compensates the compared relatively less wing area. The new CHIRON especially makes the use of the Rotax 503 engine (or similar engines with less power compared to the Rotax 582) now much more reasonable for a 2 seat PPC.

Upon request and surcharge we can do custom canopy-designs with a variety of colors choices.