Originally Posted by
Wycombe
That "fast taxi" looked like it was plenty fast enough!
The driver took the aircraft out of burner at 100kts and was doing 125kts when he pulled the chute.
The Chute was a bitch to get back into the can after we first took it out to check it and proved just as difficult to get the shackle to engage on the aircraft when we refitted the cone after fitting the can (there is a sensor rod that automatically initiates a parachute jettison if the noddy cap comes off without the parachute deployment handle being pulled). As oldmansquipper has correctly stated, the build quality tolerances on the Cat are somewhat random.