AA62,
Your description of heavy drop extraction, and the possible ramifications of a load jamming don't bear thinking about. I'm sure there must have been a few close shaves during its career. I must say that my impression of the dynamics of it was that once deployed the chutes simply stopped forward movement of the load, allowing the aircraft to "fly away". With some forward momentum that would put the load "speed over the ramp" at roughly the flying speed of the aircraft. 0 - 100 plus in the length of the freight bay, and 42K at that. As I've said previously, as a GE I rarely saw any real dropping, it's good to get an insight into it now.
Smudge
