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Photo series showing a Cirrus SR20 deploying the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS) during inflight testing in 1998. The Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS) is a whole-plane ballistic parachute recovery system designed specifically for Cirrus Aircraft's line of general aviation light aircraft including the SR20, SR22 and SF50.
The companies named the design the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS), and, as of April 2023, made it standard equipment on all 9,000+ Cirrus SR aircraft. In 2002, BRS received a supplemental type certificate to install their parachute system in the Cessna 172, followed by the Cessna 182 in 2004 and the Symphony SA-160 in 2006. [1]
[5] [6] [50] [51] The Cirrus team spent several weeks during the summer of 1997 in the high desert of southern California testing the parachute. They would drop barrels of sand out a C-123 Cargo plane and flip a switch that would deploy the chutes when the barrels reached nearly 200 mph.
The parachute, which debuted in 1998 and has helped over 250 passengers reach the ground safely, is the world's only full-plane parachute included as standard equipment.
Cirrus SR20 test deployment of the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS) over the southern California desert in 1998, Scott Anderson piloting In early 1996, Anderson's career path led him to Cirrus Design [ 9 ] (now called Cirrus Aircraft), a newly Duluth-landed general aviation startup founded by two brothers, Alan and Dale Klapmeier ...
Data from Cirrus SR20 Specifications Webpage General characteristics Crew: 1 Capacity: 3 Length: 26 ft 0 in (7.92 m) Wingspan: 38 ft 4 in (11.68 m) Height: 8 ft 11 in (2.72 m) Empty weight: 2,126 lb (964 kg) Gross weight: 3,050 lb (1,383 kg) Powerplant: 1 × Continental IO-360-ES six cylinder, horizontally-opposed piston aircraft engine, 200 hp (150 kW) Propellers: 3-bladed Performance Cruise ...
1998 photo series showing a Cirrus ballistic parachute deployment in action. A ballistic parachute, ballistic reserve parachute, or emergency ballistic reserve parachute, is a parachute ejected from its casing by a small explosion, [1] much like that used in an ejection seat.
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