Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contracts with Langley Research Center helped BRS Aerospace, of Saint Paul, Minnesota, to develop technology that has saved 246 lives to date. The company s whole aircraft parachute systems deploy in less than 1 second thanks to solid rocket motors and are capable of arresting the descent of a small aircraft, lowering it safely to the ground. BRS has sold more than 30,000 systems worldwide, and the technology is now standard equipment on many of the world s top-selling aircraft. Parachutes for larger airplanes are in the works.


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    Title :

    Rocket-Powered Parachutes Rescue Entire Planes


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    Publication date :

    2010-12-01


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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