[rushyrulz]

okay I can't say my design worked on the first drop, but it did on the second. It was from probably 45 feet onto a gym floor. I would assume the higher the drop is from the better chance the egg stands (as the parachute has more time to open and create a counterforce to gravity.) A parachute is pretty much necessary as I have seen many many designs fail because of mid-air rotation (i.e. not landing like it was supposed to land [which is also why justin-ator's design wouldn't work as the only way to make sure it lands correctly is with a weight, and it's to my understanding that you're trying to avoid weight like the plague]). A parachute pretty much guarantees that your device will land within 45° of it's intended landing position, that is unless your parachute fails, in which case.. you fail.

Don't get overconfident in your design, as two kids in my class had some acclaimed super foam that would allegedly succeed without fail. It failed tremendously of course.