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Two people left an airplane unscathed thanks to a parachute device that has been successfully used over 100 times to save doomed aircraft. Parachute helps plane make soft landing in wooded area in ...
Since the landing gear and firewall are a part of the structure designed to be crushed for energy absorption during impact after parachute deployment, Cirrus originally thought that the airframe would be damaged beyond repair on ground-impact, but the first aircraft to deploy (N1223S) [5] landed in mesquite and was not badly damaged. Cirrus ...
A Northern California family suffered just minor cuts after engine trouble on the plane they were on forced them to crash-land in the woods in Mendocino County Friday, authorities said.
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 ...
Cirrus Aircraft founders, Cirrus SR20 and SR22, Cirrus Airframe Parachute System, Cirrus Vision SF50, pioneers of composite-airframes and glass cockpits for light aircraft: Parent(s) Larry and Carol Klapmeier: Awards: See below: Alan Klapmeier: Born October 6, 1958 (age 66) Saint Paul, Minnesota, US: Alma mater: Wisconsin Ripon College: Years ...
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The advantage of the ballistic parachute over a conventional parachute is that it ejects the parachute canopy (oftentimes via a small rocket), causing it to open rapidly, thus making it ideal for attaching to light aircraft, hang gliders and microlights, where an emergency may occur in close proximity to the ground. In such a situation, a ...
The 50-year-old cold case of D.B. Cooper may have seen a new development after an amateur sleuth claims to have found the parachute used by the infamous, yet still unidentified plane hijacker.