Any comments or knowledge of potential technolgy I can feed his pipe dreasm
with?

Indeed! You can buy a parachute for a lightplane. They have saved more
than one plane/pilot, one as recently as 2003.

(Of course there's always the question in such cases as to whether,
without the parachute, the pilot would have been able to make an
emergency landing. In this case the plane didn't lose a wing or its
tail feathers, as I recall.)

all the best -- Dan Ford
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