First, print the parachute template at the bottom of this story or draw a large square on a piece of newspaper. 1. Color your parachute. 2. Cut it out. 3. Tape a piece of string to each inside corner.

A humble concept from ancient Japanese design might remake the way supplies are dropped from the air. Polytechnique Montréal ...

It's time to learn how to make a proper parachute, it's one of the easiest projects of all times, cheap as well. So we will drop it from a drone because it's big, normally I will throw it myself, but ...

making parachutes more accurate by cutting them. Inspired by kirigami (the Japanese art of paper cutting) they’ve created lightweight, cheap parachutes that fall with remarkable precision. The ...

MONTREAL — Researchers at Polytechnique Montreal have created a concept for a parachute inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami, one that engineers hope could be used in everything from humanitarian ...