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Old 9th May 2013, 12:32
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TinyTim2
 
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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 .....
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