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#Cirrus sr22 parachute free#
Yes: I told the story of “the slider” in Free Flight. The Cirrus Airframe Parachute System ( CAPS) is a whole-plane ballistic parachute recovery system designed specifically for Cirrus Aircraft 's line of general aviation light aircraft including the SR20, SR22 and SF50. The factory-new Cirrus SR22 was en route to Hawaii on Sunday afternoon on a ferry flight from the San Francisco area when it 'ran out of fuel,' the Coast Guard said in a press release. So the “riser” (a small donut-shaped devise riding on the parachute cords) provided a way to manage the energy entering the canopy of the parachute slowly so as to make it possible that at the highest speeds and energies, the canopy would act like a drag chute (mostly closed), then as speeds slowed from supersonic to subsonic, the riser on the parachute lines would lower toward the vehicle, gradually let more air into the canopy so as to allow the chute to fully inflate at safe speeds and let the payload down slowly. According to a Cirrus test engineer: 'The upside of the cuffs that they give greater control in the slow flight regime also have, like every aircraft feature, a compromise, and that is that they can cause an aircraft to take more than the required one-turn recovery rotation to be eligible to be spin-certified'. Video from a US Coast Guard aircraft released Monday captured the drama of a single-engine airplane and its pilot splashing safely onto the Pacific Ocean thanks to a parachute inside its fuselage.
The basic idea is that if a parachute were to fully inflate at hyper- or supersonic speeds, the canopy would disappear in a puff of dust due to the extreme forces at those speeds. One of the technical backstories that inspired our NASA folks at the time (circa 1995 or so) to support the BRS visionaries was our NASA and DoD experience in the use of “risers” on parachutes designed to slow down hypersonic “things” re-entering from suborbital or orbital trajectories. I am also proud of our friend and entrepreneur of the Cirrus industry, Alan Klapmeier, who stated early on, “the cost of a mistake in the air should not be death (sic),” or close to that sentiment. I am proud of my former NASA colleagues for their support of these endeavors.
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