Curt: That was a glassair I think. It happened up over the Sierras a few months ago.
jj http://kingmont.com ftp://kingmont.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "FlightGear developers discussions" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 12:12 PM Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Crash carnage > Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > >..ahem, the big guys use opening shock damper rings to keep chute loads > >safe throughout the speed range, these rings use the chute opening loads > >to slow the chute opening. ;o) > > > > > > Except that I heard a story recently about a guy that got himself into a > bad high speed situation, deployed the chute and had is airplane > shreaded to pieces. They probably have systems in place (as you > suggest) to minimize potential problems, but a chute obviously can't > handle every situation. > > Curt. > > -- > Curtis Olson http://www.flightgear.org/~curt > HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/ > FlightGear Project http://www.flightgear.org > Unique text: 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d > _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
