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.
Rocket-Powered Parachutes Rescue Entire Planes
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English
Engineering Index Backfile | 1931
|Emergency Rescue Parachutes in Helicopters
NTIS | 1969
|ROCKET SLED STRENGTH TESTING OF LARGE, SUPERSONIC PARACHUTES
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2015
|Engineering Index Backfile | 1927
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