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This wiki is intended to serve as a nexus of publicly-available knowledge of decelerator systems.  Initial content will be drawn from Knacke's 1991 Recovery Systems Design Guide .   Content will be added from other historical decelerator system design guides and publications.  Chapters will be added to include advancements in parachute materials, instrumentation, methods, modeling, simulation and other areas. This is understood to be a colossal effort.  The intent is to make steady incremental sustainable progress.

This manual is made possible through the ongoing collaboration of recovery system engineers in government, industry, and academia to provide the decelerator systems community with a living repository of the knowledge and tools necessary to evaluate, analyze, select, and design parachute recovery systems.  

Topics and specializations are organized by Chapter.  Each Chapter will have a team of Chapter Editors composed of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) who will review new content submissions for possible inclusion.  Of note: Commercial skydiving is currently beyond the scope of this wiki.

Chapters:

1. Introduction
2. Recovery System Definitions and Descriptions
3. Units of Measurement, Technical Tables, and Symbols
4. Parachute Aerodynamics
5. Parachute Performance
6. Parachute Design
7. Recovery System design
8. Recovery System Application
9. Asymmetry
10. Instrumentation
11. Materials
12. Simulation.  CFD & FSI.
13. Career Lessons Learned
14. Hardware
15. Test methods
16. Applied Loads, Degradation Factors, Applications
17. Gliding Parachutes

86. Wiki Experimentation Chapter

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