LAP PARACHUTE
Attn: Parachute Riggers:
LAP PARACHUTE RATING
If you would like to get your Lap Rigger Rating please email me your name and address, I have to show the FAA that there are enough Parachute Riggers interested for the FAA to give me the rating on my DPRE.
E-Mail: donmayer@parachuteshop.com
If you have any information on the whereabouts of a LAP Parachute, literature or manuals
or have one for sale please call me, we will pay in any condition for a
Lap Parachute, Don at 1-800-872-2488, Cell 603-897-5326, E-Mail: donmayer@ parachuteshop.com
The lap type parachute was last produced in 1930. These chutes resembled chest packs but were larger and bulkier than the 1950 versions used as military reserves. So, if they are not available, why is there a lap type rating? Efforts to have the rating removed from the federal registry have been futile. Here I am in 1998 using my lap parachute as a reserve. Now, if I can only remember whom I lent it to.If lap parachutes are illegal to use and no remaining person is licensed to
repack them, then why does the rating stay on the federal registry? Furthermore,
why would anyone want to get a lap rating. Answer: no one else has one and it is
a challenge to get one. Harry Ervin knew one person with a lap rating and he
died 15 years ago. 
My short air show careere. In 1958, just out of college I developed an air show routine using Franklin Jarman's Steraman. My brother would wear a white jump suit and make a big fan faire when he got into the front seat. On the way to the far end of the field He would put on a black coverall and leave a dummy in the front seat. He would slide over the side of the plane and lie in the grass and change back into his white jump suit. I would take off, fly over the field and then do a roll at the far end of the field. I would invert and the dummy would fall out, landing near my brother. The ambulance rushed down and there was my brother, all bruised and covered with ketchup. They would bring him back in front of the crowd and then rush him off to the hospital. Well, you can imagine that the FAA did not think this was funny. I lost my license for 2 years and they would have confiscated the plane if it had been mine.
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The lap type parachute was produced from 1915 - 1940, by Irvin Parachute Company. These chutes resembled chest packs but were larger than military chest reserves, they have long front risers so the wearer can place the chute on his lap. The Parachute Shop will pay for the LAP parachute. Call me if you have one.
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