One of our Parachutes is Missing

The Project SWORD Apollo Saturn toy rocket is the only SWORD toy with a parachute. This chute, attached to a small hard transparent capsule, is made of a thin carrier-bag type plastic and coloured white with red check squares. You can see it tucked into my box above. I imagine that the parachute and capsule were often the first parts of this toy to vanish into the void!

So the recent appearance on Ebay of a loose parachute, amongst some Saturn spares, was unusual. I know a couple of Swordies who needed one. The scarcity of loose parachutes led me to wonder if there were acceptable alternatives for the collector. Could other contemporary toys have included one?

The similar Sears and Tomy Apollo rockets presumably both had the same parachute as the Century 21 SWORD version. These two pictures, above and below, of a loose Sears parachute I saw a few years ago on Ebay certainly suggest at least the Sears one is the same perhaps, but as I own neither toy its hard to say. Can anyone confirm this?

Looking further into 'space', we find plastic parachutes on many toys from the 1960's, but all appear to have red stripes rather than red check and include:

.....the Askews model capsule pictured above [may not be red stripes!]

....and above, the space paratroop [the header card shows a red striped chute at least]

 .....and above and below two versions of Marx's Project Apollo with 'manned recovery capsules'

Despite there being countless cheap party favour paratroopers in the shops, a thorough surf was unable to locate any toys - old or new - sporting a red check parachute like the Century 21 Apollo Saturn. I did however find a red plastic carrier bag with the required red pattern being stocked on Ebay as pictured below [contact me for the link directly lest we cause a sudden rise in 'spare' SWORD chutes appearing on said site!]. The dimensions would have to be checked but, by George, it might just do! Obviously you would need to cut to shape, attach the strings and have the C21 space capsule, finding an alternative to which, will prove an even more herculean task I fear!