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Airplanes provided with salvation parachutes: an idea funded by NASA

Washington, USA - The purpose is the one of ensuring a higher safety degree for several fix-winged aircraft classes

NASA would be funding a project by the US company Ballistic Recovery Systems, competent in the production of parachutes. The aim would be the one of extending the research activities of such firm for the designing of parachutes to be devoted to fix-winged aircraft, in order to significantly reduce the effects of a fall in case of failure in flight. Such enterprise focused at first on the designing...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 111031
Rome, Italy, 12/30/2004 15:41
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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