 Apco Aviation started manufacturing the Mayday in 1984, and since then put over 20 000 pieces into service in the Paragliding and Hang Gliding markets. The Mayday has hundreds of life saving deployments to its name, from beginners to world champions.
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The Mayday is available in four sizes for paragliding and powered paragliding. Apco also manufactures a wide range of accessories for the Mayday range. This includes front and side mounted external containers for paragliding as well as external containers for powered paragliding and hang gliding, split bridles, long bridle extensions, UV-sleeves and much more.
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Over the years the basic design and construction tecniques have remained the same - there is nothing to improve on a winning design and best seller. All four of the Mayday parachutes are "Flat Circular Pulled Down Apex" in design. In 1998 the Mayday Bi was released in a Pulled down Apex version, and soon after the Mayday 20 hit the market.
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 The Mayday boasts superior construction and materials. The canopy cloth is F111 "zero porosity" ripstop nylon. The skirt and apex skirt is reinforced with 1'mil spec nylon tape, neatly wrapped and stiched with a precision four-needle machine. The line attachments have V-Tab reinforcements, sewn in place with a computerized machine, ensuring consistantly high quality and strength.
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The Bridle is made from 6000 pound Nylon Webbing (UV Resistant). The attachment loop is covered with a Teflon sheath, to protect it from dangerous friction which may occur during deployment. Finally the bridle has a line sheath attached, to protect the lines where they link to it.
 Apco Mayday reserves come in two versions:
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Paraglider - Folded in a deployment bag with no reserve handle. These are made to be installed in a paraglider harness using the deployment handle supplied with the harness.
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PPG - Folded inside of an external bag specifically designed for PPG's. These can be vertically or horizontally mounted to the a PPG Trike, paramotor frame, harness or comfort bar adapters. This style can also be used by paraglider pilots wanting a removable reserve parachute for the new convertable harnesses. Quite often, a smaller size can be used, since there is no motor to consider for the total weight. This results in an extremely light addition to a paraglider kit that is easy to add or remove as needed.
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