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    For the last 4 years Precision Aerodynamics and NZ Aerosports has been out on their own having the only 21 cell HP canopies on the market. Even without the Goliath marketing power of some manufacturers, they've carved themselves a niche in the HP market consistently winning canopy surfing competitions.
    They've always known that the superior performance of the Icarus EXTreme-FX would not be ignored by other canopy manufacturers. Their design would eventually become the benchmark in HP and others would need to do their own versions to keep up. With this in mind they have been working on the 'next step' for quite some time, so that when other manufactures followed suit, they could retain and solidly state their position in the market as "the technological leaders in canopy design".

Introducing the EXTreme-VX
    The EXTreme-VX is a 27-cell Elliptical X-braced Tri-cell that brings HP canopy performance to the next step – again! Just as they did 4 years ago with the EXTreme and then again 2 years ago with the EXTreme-FX.

• Jumpers have known for years that 9-cell canopy's out perform 7-cell's. 27 cells out perform 21 cells just the same.
• Bulge distortion is minimized to the point that the canopy is held so well into shape that any cross section of the canopy will show a maximum airfoil distortion of only 8.75% from the desired shape. (compared to 11.5% on the FX and over 20% on conventional 9-cells). This far more accurate airfoil is visually noticeable, the VX actually looks like a wing rather than a flying mattress.
• The extra rigidity in the canopy through both narrower cell spans and broader angles in the cross braces gives the canopy an even crisper more ridged feel, even more than the EXTreme-FX.
• The performance sacrifice made through extra line groups is well exceeded by the performance gains made through a tighter cleaner wing.

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