Blog | Fruity Chutes

New Hawk CO2 Valves Being Assembled

Hawk CO2 Release for CO2 powered parachute deployment

Dec 26, 2016 Gene Engelgau

UPDATE January 3, 2017 - theHawk CO2 Release is now available from the Web Store!

The new Hawk CO2 valves look awesome with blue anodizing. The Hawk will be available for sale next week.

-Gene

Fruity Chutes Can Prevent Drone Destruction

Dec 23, 2016 Gene Engelgau

Fruity Chutes Introduces High Speed CO2 Release System for Ballistic Parachute Deployment

New Flexible CO2 Parachute Deployment System Introduced for Drones

Nov 09, 2016 Gene Engelgau

Fruity Chutes Introduces High Speed CO2 Release System for Ballistic Parachute Deployment

Kevlar Webbing Raw Stock Now Available on Our Webstore

Kevlar straight harness and Kevlar Y-harness for parachutes

Aug 30, 2016 Gene Engelgau

We've sold Kevlar harnesses for some time. We just added the raw Kevlar stock for our 1/4" material to the webstore with two types available:

The 1700# material we get in full 1000' rolls from Giant Leap Rocketry. We now sell it by the yard.
We also have a custom made 2200# test material for sale as well.…

New Drone Parachute Launchers Featuring Ultra Lightweight Parachutes

Skycat UAS parachute launcher mounted on top of drone

Aug 17, 2016 Gene Engelgau

We filled out our line of Skycat Recovery Bundles by adding four new exciting products!

Introducing the Peregrine UAV Modular Ballistic Parachute Deployment System

Peregrine UAV ballistic parachute system for UAS

Apr 29, 2016 Gene Engelgau

We've been working on an improved version of the Peregrine IDS. Here is a first look at the Peregrine UAV!

sUSB Expo 2016 - How to choose a parachute recovery system

Apr 28, 2016 Gene Engelgau

USB Expo Presentation on UAV Parachute Recovery

Huge Iris Parachute for a Heavy Lift Copter

Pre-flight check for heavy lift copter parachute

Apr 11, 2016 Gene Engelgau

Henry at Skycat has been testing our IFC-192-S parachute with a heavy lift copter.

Light Weight Elliptical Parachutes

Mar 29, 2016 Gene Engelgau

Our smaller Elliptical parachutes are popular with the rocket folks as both drogue or main chutes. We now have lightweight and compact versions of these for our complete lineup from the CFC-12-S to the CFC-36-S.