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RV6A down in Seattle area
"Charles Vincent" wrot BRS gone bad...... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1PX7G0u0yI&feature=related No doubt! I always wonder how that guy fared, as result of that crash. Surely at least broken bones! It looks like the chute just fell out of the tube, without the rocket firing; is that what happened? -- Jim in NC |
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RV6A down in Seattle area
Morgans wrote: "Sliker" wrote The BRS chute would have more success. It would have had absolutely no chance of saving the people in this crash. They might not have even been able to get to the activation handle in time, and if it had been deployed, there is ___no___ chance that it would have been able to fully open and slow the airplane to a survivable speed. Well, if the BRS had been installed, and if they had enough altitude to deploy it, it would have worked. But is it known what altitude they were at when the engine failed? Nothing I've read so far indicates that. But in this case, it's all hypothetical anyway. No BRS was available, Their only chance was to have flown the airplane to the ground under control, which doesn't seem to have been the case. In a lot of homebuilts(or just about any single), one of the worst times to loose the engine is on takeoff at low altitude. And in that situation, it's necessary to push the nose over instantly at a rate that will just about float you off the seat, If you were climbing slow, to prevent a stall. Not many pilots react that quickly, and the thing stalls so fast they loose all their options. |
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