Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS).

[prashantakerkar]

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Could this systems be useful in commercial aircraft carriers where Total weight of the aircraft is the main parameter for safe landing in emergency
conditions ?.


Thanks & Regards,
Prashant S Akerkar

[TinyTim2]

Mate , think about the weight here , a Cirrus weighs about 2k kg and the parachutes are HUGE .. A B737 weighs somewhere around 70k kg , the parachutes would have to be size of a city block and take minutes to deploy , TOTALLY UNWORKABLE .....

[Stitchbitch]

TT.2 The para assembly (whatever its size) wouldn't take that long to operate as it's deployed via a ballistic system. As you've said though, the hard part would be the operating deployment speed envelope and finding a space to fit one in a 737.