I gotta say I'm a bit negative about parachute systems for aircraft, although one of the instructors at our school popped the chute in a Cirrus after an engine failure over non-hospitible terrain and she seems to like it
My question is what's the deal with mounting it to the mast? Seems like it would have made more sense to mount it to the cabin structure so that if the mast/rotor decided to leave and go away that the parachute would stay with the aircraft?
What I've always wondered is why we can do the giant airbag thing like the Mars Exploration Rover and Mars Pathfinder used? Just how big an airbag would a S92 require?
