Recovery Systems

My partners and I set out with the challenge of creating a parachute that would balance perfectly when dropped off a ledge. When we opened our supply bag, there was already a parachute made. We then tested it by going up to the sixth grade and dropping it down the stairs. It worked well. Our next task was to delay the fall even more. W e layed out the parachute and made the strings tight to the middle. we then connected it to the weight. That was the one that worked the best. We then realized that we could unfold the bag that was the base of our parachute. We unfolded it and made the strigs tight to the middle again. We lauched it, but it folded in half and didn't have any resistance. That was because the strings weren't the same length.