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18th Aug 10 at 16:24

Don't see too many videos of people recovering their aeroplanes using ballistic parachutes...

http://youtu.be/XnHuIET4P2s

Fast forward to 1:50 for the good bit...

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18th Aug 10 at 16:35

never seen a parachute on a plane before, did the guy come down in the plane or did he eject and parachute seperatly

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18th Aug 10 at 16:35

Shows how light those planes are

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18th Aug 10 at 16:42

quote:
Originally posted by Tomnova16
never seen a parachute on a plane before, did the guy come down in the plane or did he eject and parachute seperatly

It's a ballistic parachute attached to the airframe. They're attached to a rocket which fires the parachute into the sky and then various cable pull out from hidden places and you float down to the ground inside the plane without getting out. There are a few light aircraft which come with them and people can add them to their kit planes when they assemble them if the choose.

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18th Aug 10 at 16:45

pretty good idea, saves you doing a goose from top gun

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18th Aug 10 at 16:46

Goose should have been able to recover

But it does help when things go totally tits up...

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19th Aug 10 at 12:39

Better pic for you Tom: http://www.airliners.net/photo/Rans-S-9-Chaos/1761520/&sid=09e57da36f18ecc7c57692de00004120

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19th Aug 10 at 12:41

thats pretty cool

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19th Aug 10 at 12:59

I like the music

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19th Aug 10 at 13:38

With a wing being a pretty integral part of a plane why did it just FALL off so easily?

Just gives me another reason not to fly watching that

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19th Aug 10 at 13:41

quote:
Originally posted by Ben D
Just gives me another reason not to fly watching that

It shocks me that you don't like to fly after being in the car with you

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19th Aug 10 at 13:44

What are you trying to say brett?

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19th Aug 10 at 13:45

The pilot says fatigue in the wing root. Sounds fairly plausible as flying aerobatics does cause a lot of stress that will really show up any weak spots you may have caused by fatigue or even over stressing during manoeuvres.

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19th Aug 10 at 13:47

i put it down to flying upside down, must have reverse forces to what it usually has

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19th Aug 10 at 13:49

That aircraft is fully aerobatic as is cleared for inverted flight so it would be pretty bad if it was that!

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19th Aug 10 at 14:02

I'm having an aerobatic flight as a passenger in one of these on Saturday

Tomnova16

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19th Aug 10 at 14:35

quote:
Originally posted by ed
That aircraft is fully aerobatic as is cleared for inverted flight so it would be pretty bad if it was that!

i see, can you tell i know nothing about planes

actually i know they serve nice cheesy biscuits

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19th Aug 10 at 15:12

Good idea, shame he didn't have an extinguisher too though!

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