An emergency landing apparatus (100) for an aircraft and an associated method are provided. The emergency landing apparatus comprises: a housing (10) for ejection from the aircraft; a parachute (20), arranged for deployment from the housing, comprising a canopy (22); a rocket motor (30), positioned in the housing, arranged to provide upwards thrust to control descent of the aircraft during emergency landing of the aircraft; a rocket motor initiator (38), positioned in the housing, arranged to initiate the rocket motor; and one or more sensors for sensing ejection of the housing from the aircraft and for arming the rocket motor initiator in response to sensing ejection of the housing from the aircraft.
EMERGENCY LANDING OF AIRCRAFT
NOTLANDUNG VON FLUGZEUGEN
ATTERRISSAGE D'URGENCE D'AÉRONEF
2020-07-29
Patent
Electronic Resource
English