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Posted: 8/16/2010 9:45:58 AM EDT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnHuIET4P2s&feature=player_embedded

Skip to 1:55. I googled the plane, it's tiny. I bet the landing didn't feel good.

Posted: 8/16/2010 9:48:16 AM EDT

[#1]

Cool video, but how many times do the wings fall off those things that parachutes for the plane are a standard feature?

Posted: 8/16/2010 9:49:34 AM EDT

[#2]

Wow! At first I thought the chute was for the pilot and got tangled. I guess the chute was for the plane.

Posted: 8/16/2010 9:51:02 AM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:

Cool video, but how many times do the wings fall off those things that parachutes for the plane are a standard feature?

thats the same thing i was thinking.

i originally thought the dude pulled his shoot WHILE still in the seat and it wasnt working out so well

Posted: 8/16/2010 9:52:17 AM EDT

[#4]

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Posted: 8/16/2010 9:53:22 AM EDT

[#5]

That's a RANS S-9. Marketed with aerobatic ability. Trouble is, the wing structure blows. I wouldn't fly one up right at one g.

The ballistic recovery chute is fairly common these days in some light homebuilts and ultralights, but even a few factory airplanes have one installed.

Posted: 8/16/2010 9:54:27 AM EDT

[#6]

I bet next time he'll stake the wing nuts.

Posted: 8/16/2010 9:55:46 AM EDT

[#7]

I bet he blew out his shorts with that one....

Posted: 8/16/2010 9:56:32 AM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
Cool video, but how many times do the wings fall off those things that parachutes for the plane are a standard feature?

Parachutes are required when carrying non-crewmembers and doing more than a 30 degree pitch or 60 degree bank. But it's pretty much universal that acrobatic pilots wear chutes, their accredating agencies may require them.

Posted: 8/16/2010 9:57:02 AM EDT

[#9]

The front wing fell off.

Posted: 8/16/2010 10:00:36 AM EDT

[#10]

Wow, he accidentally the whole wing!

Posted: 8/16/2010 10:01:41 AM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LveSc8Lp0ZE.

WOW!

Posted: 8/16/2010 10:02:02 AM EDT

[#12]

Hey, here's an idea. Lets put a parachute on a plane so when it hits the ground and burst into flames, the wind can catch it and drag a fireball all over the place.

Posted: 8/16/2010 10:06:59 AM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
Hey, here's an idea. Lets put a parachute on a plane so when it hits the ground and burst into flames, the wind can catch it and drag a fireball all over the place.

I know nothing about aviation (well, I know getting DOWN is easy), but I'm guessing the 'chute's purpose was a little different than that. Just a hunch, mind you.

Edit to say kudos to the pilot for a very calm and skillful reaction. Panic would have had a very different outcome.

Posted: 8/16/2010 10:10:13 AM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
Hey, here's an idea. Lets put a parachute on a plane so when it hits the ground and burst into flames, the wind can catch it and drag a fireball all over the place.

Wow, amazing you are. Please research ballistic parachutes before coming to that absurd conclusion

Posted: 8/16/2010 10:10:48 AM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
Hey, here's an idea. Lets put a parachute on a plane so when it hits the ground and burst into flames, the wind can catch it and drag a fireball all over the place.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm..................plow into ground head first and die or live through a wing falling off my plane and start a grass fire? I"ll take grass fire for the win every time.

Posted: 8/16/2010 10:13:08 AM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:

Hey, here's an idea. Lets put a parachute on a plane so when it hits the ground and burst into flames, the wind can catch it and drag a fireball all over the place.

Would you prefer slamming vertically into the ground at 200kts Mr Wizard?

Posted: 8/16/2010 10:14:52 AM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:

Wow, he accidentally the whole wing!

Posted: 8/16/2010 10:15:32 AM EDT

[#18]

In retrospect, the parachute was a fairly good idea.

Posted: 8/16/2010 10:16:20 AM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
I bet next time he'll stake the wing nuts.

Posted: 8/16/2010 10:16:44 AM EDT

[#20]

Shoulder thingy that goes up?

Posted: 8/16/2010 10:17:41 AM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LveSc8Lp0ZE.

WOW!

Posted: 8/16/2010 10:18:11 AM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:

The front wing fell off.

First thing I thought of too.

Posted: 8/16/2010 10:24:20 AM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LveSc8Lp0ZE.

WOW!

I believe this deserves the slogan,

America, Fuck Yeah!

Posted: 8/16/2010 10:27:47 AM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:
Hey, here's an idea. Lets put a parachute on a plane so when it hits the ground and burst into flames, the wind can catch it and drag a fireball all over the place.

Thats what I was thinking, looked like it was gonna turn into a scene out of the Simpsons where all sorts of catastrophies start chain reacting.

Posted: 8/16/2010 10:27:56 AM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
Hey, here's an idea. Lets put a parachute on a plane so when it hits the ground and burst into flames, the wind can catch it and drag a fireball all over the place.

But the pilot won't mind because he'll be dead from the impact at hitting from such high speed. Too bad the plane didn't have a parachute to slow it down to a survivable impact.

Oh, wait...

Posted: 8/16/2010 10:41:49 AM EDT

[#26]

Looked like the chute was very close to becoming tangled in the parts the plane was shedding.

Never mind watched it again. That chute worked great.

Posted: 8/16/2010 10:49:28 AM EDT

[#27]

Wow.

Posted: 8/16/2010 11:06:42 AM EDT

[#28]

This one sucked

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bDNCac2N1o

Posted: 8/16/2010 11:14:43 AM EDT

[#29]

Ballistic parachute, that's probably the first time someone has filmed that happening under those circumstances!

Posted: 8/16/2010 11:16:29 AM EDT

[#30]

I really liked the Yanni music in the video. That was a nice touch, IMO.

Posted: 8/16/2010 11:18:31 AM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:
Hey, here's an idea. Lets put a parachute on a plane so when it hits the ground and burst into flames, the wind can catch it and drag a fireball all over the place.

Unlike Hollywood, where even a fender-bender causes a car to explode like it's packed with TNT, in real life it takes far more to actually start a fire....
Once the chute is popped, the pilot has plenty of time to shut off fuel valves & sources of ignition (master power switch is there for a reason)....
It's very likely that there will be no fireball.
That said, in this case, it seems like the fuel foreward of the shut-off caught fire... Glass-bowl fuel-water separator breaking? Fuel line rupture? Source of ignition likely would be the exhaust.....
Still, not a hollywood fireball...
And the BRS-type parachute is much safer for the occupant of the plane, than the 'bail out' variety, so long as the plane is not on fire - parachuting is a very good way to injure your legs/back if done 'wrong', and this way the (already damaged) aircraft takes the impact, not your body... It also makes situations where you cannot get yourself out of the plane to bail out 'survivable', and has a much wider operating envelope (eg, can save you from more types of crashes)

Posted: 8/16/2010 11:21:20 AM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:
Looked like the chute was very close to becoming tangled in the parts the plane was shedding.

Never mind watched it again. That chute worked great.

Only broke one suspension line.

Posted: 8/16/2010 11:22:41 AM EDT

[#33]

Brilliant!

Quoted:
Hey, here's an idea. Lets put a parachute on a plane so when it hits the ground and burst into flames, the wind can catch it and drag a fireball all over the place.

Posted: 8/16/2010 11:33:26 AM EDT

[#34]

More broken wing footage

Posted: 8/16/2010 11:37:20 AM EDT

[#35]

Ballistic recovery systems have been used several times with success on light aircraft. Here's a vid from inside the cockpit during a different incident.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXQKaxp6Rlk

Posted: 8/16/2010 11:44:16 AM EDT

[#36]

I wonder if the chute auto-deploys or is pilot activated?

Posted: 8/16/2010 11:48:32 AM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:
I wonder if the chute auto-deploys or is pilot activated?

Pilot operated.

How the fuck would a chute know?

Posted: 8/16/2010 11:49:49 AM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:
More broken wing footage

So instead of being Rick Rolled we're now gonna get Mr. Mister'd?

Posted: 8/16/2010 11:49:57 AM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:
I wonder if the chute auto-deploys or is pilot activated?

Pilot (or co-pilot) activated. I don't think any of these BRS systems are set up to auto-deploy at this time. Too many factors to account for. For now, somebody's got to pull the handle or it's not going to deploy.

Posted: 8/16/2010 11:51:02 AM EDT

[#40]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I wonder if the chute auto-deploys or is pilot activated?

Pilot operated.

How the fuck would a chute know?

You know...just use the auto-pilot smurfs. They're not that busy. They can take over chute deployment duties no problem.

Posted: 8/16/2010 12:00:51 PM EDT

[#41]

This one happened in Plainveiw, Tx, back in the early '80's. The pilot's wife was on the microphone at the time. A local newschick had ridden with him that day, and was ver visibly shaken when giving the news report. I live about 60 mi. north, and remember this on T.V.

I bet he woulda loved a ballistic chute.

OOOOPS

Posted: 8/16/2010 12:02:11 PM EDT

[#42]

Quoted:

This one sucked

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bDNCac2N1o

Jeez.

Posted: 8/16/2010 12:02:31 PM EDT

[#43]

Posted: 8/16/2010 12:06:46 PM EDT

[#44]

I have witnessed 6 airplanes impact the ground unintentionally. In only one of those instances would a chute like that have made any difference in survivability. Great idea, but of limited application.

One of the incidents involved a wing seperation, but at 450+mph I think the chute would have just ripped loose, but maybe not. It would have been nice to find out.

Posted: 8/16/2010 12:11:27 PM EDT

[#45]

RANS != EXTRA

Posted: 8/16/2010 12:18:10 PM EDT

[#46]

Quoted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LveSc8Lp0ZE.

WOW!

There was a training incident while I was stationed at Elmendorf AFB in Anchorage where a pilot shot his wing man with a live AIM 9L. Luckily the pilot of the damaged plane was a Viet Nam Vet with lots of experience, and his last second evasive maneuver caused the heat seeking missile to detonate a few feet from the plane instead of inside an engine.

The damage wasn't as bad as the Israeli plane in the video, but it wasn't very far from it. That plane made it home and landed safely too. The F15 is one tough bird!