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Old 28th Dec 2009, 11:43
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debiassi
 
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"Because unrecoverable spins may be encountered during initial aircraft stall/spin flight tests, spin test aircraft are commonly equipped with emergency spin-recovery parachute systems, which can be deployed to terminate the spinning motion and reduce the aircraft angle of attack to below stall conditions. The parachute is then jettisoned by the pilot and conventional flight resumed."
Concept to Reality (contains some photos of spin-recovery parachutes)

If you know pilots who have recovered from fully developed spins in these aircraft without deploying the chutes then I take my hat off to them. They should be working for Cirrus.
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