Dramatic video shows pilot using a parachute that lets the WHOLE PLANE parachute to ground!! with newborn onboard!

All planes should have these.

I wonder if it would work for a 747.

That was awesome

Small planes yes. But for a passenger liner jet, the air speed is way too fast for a parachute. It would likely tear a hole in the fuselage as it broke away from the plane.

ok.... but how about enabling the entire passenger compartment and cockpit to separate from the wings and fuselage... and THEN deploy a parachute?!!! it's worth trying! isn't it??!!

They have a design where the passenger compartment breaks away and parachutes will save only that.

You can use multiple chutes fed out by starter chutes that each slow the plane down. The new penis rockets they are shooting off use them. Only problem is that you need a lot of altitude. Not gonna work on takeoff probably.

It can be done. Joe sixpack mcburger american couldn't afford a ticket for it though.

ofcourse it would..its problem of size and cost

That's been around for decades in aviation. Many private aircraft have it installed. Certainly not Russian and not new.
Some aircraft come standard with the CAPS system installed. First achieved FAA certification in 1998, developed in Michigan for civilian aircraft but from a system designed by NASA

It's about fukn' time!

I've been saying it since the 1970s.

They are heavy and take up a lot of space. But they do work.

Good FINAL backup system.

First one should see if there is a reasonable field to land in within gliding range. That should be the first and second option.

ONLY when it is apparent it will have to be an "off airport" location and there is NO good LEVEL farm field to glide into should one then deploy the parachute system.

At least of couple of the "saves" have been because of mid air collisions ... which render gliding to a landing impossible anyway. In one of them the people in the other plane died but those in the Cirrus lived and weren't seriously injured.

The problem of course is that the COST of the airplanes that have them are through the roof ... AND the parachute system needs to be replaced I think it is once every 5 years, at a considerable cost too.

If you are RICH and want THE SAFEST single engine plane I don't think there is any doubt the Cirrus is probably your only real choice.

Cirrus has also designed and sells a single engine SMALL jet (4 people) that not only has the parachute system in it but also has a button you can push in case of pilot incapcitation which will fly the jet to a nearby airport and land it on the runway, braking it to a stop, automatically!! Talk about SAFETY!!

NOT the biggest small jet out there. NOT the fastest small jet out there (very very slow). NOT the highest altitude cruising small jet out there. AND NOT the longest range small jet out there. BUT ... probably the SAFEST small jet out there for the recreational part time pilot.

Last Edited by Digital mix guy Spock on 03/17/2023 02:40 PM

The biggest safety item today of course is flying with unvaccinated pilots.

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Wrong...it's a system designed by NASA for space capsules in free fall from space which are traveling much faster than any airliner. It works for the Dragon space craft designed by SpaceX and is a part of the astronaut escape capsule which they started designing after the shuttle disasters. They were always on the design books but they got serious after those incidents.

It indeed comes down to cost, weight, and need in commercial aviation and since the airlines cannot afford to outfit every aircraft with a CAPS system and still operate the aircraft profitably it will not become a reality, and since we are currently operating in the safest period of aviation ever they would argue the need of the expense. So certainly could be a system on any aircraft and not "rip" it apart, it's not economically feasible as long as we want to pay very little for air travel.

Absolutely.

Very cool.


We used to discuss this in grade school.

Engineers are catching up to 11 year olds!