Courtesy of this month's PAN:
Although conventional wisdom suggests that rotary wing craft have their own ‘parachute’ in the presence of the rotor itself, a Czech company has developed a new parachute based aircraft recovery/safety system. Readers may be familiar with the concept of the Ballistic Recovery Systems parachute based system used on such light fixed wing aircraft as the Cirrus, this new system is designed for light rotary craft.
Already tested it enables safe recovery of rotary craft from a height of 60m at a forward speed of 60km/h and higher or from 110m if in the hover.
Galaxy GRS s.r.o. are to exhibit at AERO Friedrichhafen this month but were walking the halls in Anaheim last month. Fuller details can be found on their
website
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Last edited by Ian Corrigible; 27th Aug 2014 at 18:40.