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Huge Parachute Saves Crashing Planes
theodp writes "When his small plane banked uncontrollably and began spiraling toward earth, Canadian rancher Albert Kolk and his three passengers were saved by a single parachute. Big-as-a-house parachutes made by Ballistic Recovery Systems are stored behind the rear seats in small planes and fired with a rocket through the rear windshield; they're attached with high-strength lines to the plane's wings, nose and tail. Deployment videos here."
Hopefully no one packs a pack of pots and pans, or even worse, an anvil!
are you implying that the plane was shot down with... mind bullets?
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
The crash video one. Well, it had. I think it already crashed and burned.
funny munging
They did have one. But it deployed in the small closed server room. They're not sure where the rocket went and they're still trying to find the operator.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
if a similar idea could be used to save a sinking boat. Instead of a parchute obviosly, you could use huge balloons. It could at least slow down the sinking to give time to get into a life boat or raft.
What?
You must be a Mac user.
from the ejection-seats-are-cooler-though dept.
Only in helicopters!
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...remember the indestructible black box they have in the cockpit? Why can't they make the whole plane outta that?
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