Parachute Folding for Model Rockets

Video Transcript

"So now what we're going to do is we're going to fold the parachute. We're going to put the rocket back together; but first thing you do is you're going to fit this mess of a parachute into this small tube. It sometimes going to be a challenging task, sometimes it can go fairly easy depending on how you like to fold and your folding skills. Personally my folding skills are average; we'll see how average. What you do is you fold the parachute in half and then four..., fold it in quarter like so; you then fold in thirds, oh I'm sorry in eighths like so. And then you; you'll fold it in what I call sixteenths I guess, but you fold it down until the; the width of the biggest part of the parachute looks like it fits in the tube. So I'm going to fold it one more time. Then what I do is I fold the parachute three times length wise to a smaller package and I take the as best as I can; I take the shock..., the parachute lanyards and I will fold then around the package of the parachute generally; don't worry this will open as you, when you fly it. But I just do this because when we're getting ready to paint the rocket and you don't want to paint the parachute and the shot cord, and all that. So what you want to do is you want to do is stick those into the body tube and then you shove the lanyard, the parachute; the shot cord in the body tube as well. And, and you're done you will have a pretty much a completed rocket ready to be painted and then on to flight; like that."