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Originally Posted by Oldrotorhead
In the first two it looks like maybe dropped too close together, with the second load catching in the first prior to having an open chute?
(Observations of someone that never put anything out the door heavier than his own ass.  ) |
All the deployments look good...the load master releases a small pilot chute, which then pulls out the drogue chute attached to the first load. The drogue chute pulls the platform out and then the chutes, then breaks free. You can see them (the drogue chutes) floating down all over the sky as the video rolls. The Support Platoon Leader used to have fits trying to find all of them after a heavy drop!
Anyway, when the first platform clears the ramp, it pulls the drogue chute out of the second platform... it takes a second or two to pull the next load out, then it breaks free...the interval between loads is determined by this process and looked good.
You can see the two platform deployment from inside here...my apologies for the stars of the show, but it was the best view of the sequence I could find ;(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsKID0P3Wys
From the video, it looks pretty clear to me that in the two you can see, the issue was load attachment to the platform was poor and it came free, either during, or shortly after chute deployment.