3-ring parachute release system - GIF, video, patent

[Jon]

The design is exceptional. It's simple yet effective and easily constructed. It should be awarded some sort of design prize.

Good call!



More parachute-themed inventions from this same guy:

Skyhook reserve parachute deployment system
Means for releasably attaching strands
Retractable safety ripcord

More about the inventor Bill Booth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Booth

Interestingly, Booth coined a rule about how risk increases with implementation of safety gear, here written about in the Harvard Business Review:



This is a controversial theory known as Risk Homeostasis. If you've ever driven a vehicle faster when wearing a helmet, you've experienced this.