To all the posters on this thread: Thank you!

I never knew, till today, the proper meaning of 'Egghead.'


At 15:30 13 March 2005, Malcolm Austin wrote:
Hi Chip,
your question set me looking through
my photo's of a trip to
my office
in Switzerland last year. We went through one of those
'executive training
courses'
and had to design a device to allow an egg to be dropped
10 metres without
smashing.

Of course the facilities were deliberately limited.
We used drinking straws
as a shock
absorber, a paper tube as a crush zone and finished
off with two balloons to
slow the
descent. It worked !!

I have a picture which I can send direct if it would
help.

There's no fee for the design by the way, but don't
tell NASA!!

Malcolm (in the UK)



'chipsoars' wrote in message
roups.com...
I have to help my daughter make a parachute for an
egg drop at school.
Are there any guidelines on design, such as canopy
size for a weight
one of you might be able to share or a handy link.

Somehow I think my Strong is overkill.

Chip F.