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Can you imagine the scale of parachute that would be needed to safely bring an airliner cabin to earth? Could a parachute on that scale actually be made suffici
by jfk13 8y ago
Can you imagine the scale of parachute that would be needed to safely bring an airliner cabin to earth? Could a parachute on that scale actually be made sufficiently strong (and light), and successfully deployed? I doubt it.
- ajuc 8y agoYes. It would be expansive though.
- agumonkey 8y agoI want a wingsuit on my ticket. If I die at least I'll be superman-like for 30minutes
- saiya-jin 8y agoImagine 500m wide parachute. Would probably weight few tonnes, be very complex to deploy (say only above 1-2km altitude), very hard to inspect regularly etc. The other problem is, a lot of death/damage is done after plane hits the ground and starts to burn. You wouldn't be able to prevent that, since emergency parachute falls are hard ones. So you might still end up killing everybody on plane.