Our parachute has been going really well! Our material finally came in, and while I was gone for a dance competition, the other girls made the spill hole. When I came back, we started creating the places on the outside of the parachute where we would put the rope connected to the container holding the FLIP camera and iPhone. So we created 4 places on the parachute where we made 3 holes. We sewed 3 washers onto the parachute where the hole was so there was a place to put the cord to connect the container and parachute. We folded part of the parachute over the washer (with a hole in it) to make it 2-ply. Then, we tested it. The places that were in between where the washers were (with the rope) flew up. So if the washers were like this:
OOO OOO
Then the space between them was flying up. So, we had to add 2 more small washers in between them to create space for more rope to connect the parachute and container...so now it looks like this:
OOO oo OOO
This seemed to work better! Hopefully the parachute will go smoothly because we are doing the official thing tomorrow at our Community Service project!
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