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>If you have the money, zero/zero ballistic parachutes have been a reliable thing for more than half a century. That's called an ejection seat, right? As in a
by NovemberWhiskey 5y ago
>If you have the money, zero/zero ballistic parachutes have been a reliable thing for more than half a century.
That's called an ejection seat, right? As in a rocket-propelled vehicle to launch you sufficiently high out of your aircraft to allow your parachute safely to deploy (i.e. about a hundred meters, as described in the prior post)
- IshKebab 5y agoNo, it's a parachute that is deployed via a small explosion so it doesn't rely on falling through air to open.
- NovemberWhiskey 5y agoCan you provide a link to such a system? I did a best-efforts search and failed to turn up anything.
- brianwawok 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_parachute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_parachute
- NovemberWhiskey 5y agoI'm unaware of any of those which are zero-zero. The Cirrus CAPS system has a minimum altitude of 400 ft or 920 ft after a one-turn spin, for example. BRS doesn't make specific claims for their system as far as I know but I'd be amazed if it were that much improved over the Cirrus one.