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"SteveM8597" wrote in message ... A non flying software engineer friend of mine insistes it is poossible to put devices on a plane to make it safer by impacting the ground at a low velocity after loss of control or catastrophic failure, or to be able to manuever to miss an obstacle when impact is imminent. These devices would include retrorockets, large recovery chutes, airbrake type control surfaces, warpable wings, and software on airplanes. Ballistic recovery systems have had successes on light planes and ultralights Otherwise, I have told him that the above have been proven to be impractical and even dangerous. He insists that technology is there that would allow either an out of control or powerless heavy to eiher recover or hit the ground softly enough that it would be survivable. I've got 34 years in the business and a degree in aero engineering but he seems to think I am just being negative. Any comments or knowledge of potential technolgy I can feed his pipe dreasm with? It may well be technically possible but the challenge is to develop a system at affordable cost that doesnt impose unreasonable performance constraints and that performs reliably enough to decrease risks. For example consider the case of a ballistic recovery system designed to allow an aircraft to 'parachute' to safety. The number of situations in which such a system would have helped seems small given that must airliner accidents happen at landing or takeoff or involve controlled flight into terrain rather than a technical failure. The result of such a system deploying accidentally mid Atlantic would be unfortunate so it must be rather more reliable than the aircraft itself, a non trivial task when one considers how rarely aircraft have crashed due to techical faults. Keith |
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