The Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS) is a whole-plane ballistic parachute recovery system designed specifically for Cirrus Aircraft's line of general...
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piston aircraft market. The Cirrus SR22 has a whole-plane emergency recovery parachute system: the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS). This has contributed...
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yoke"). The SR20 and SR22 are equipped with the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS), a large parachute that can be deployed in an emergency to lower...
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the European market, Cirrus received EASA certification at the May 2017 EBACE. A video of the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS) being tested in-flight...
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manufacturing industry, including glass cockpits and full-airframe ballistic parachutes. In 2001, Cirrus sold a majority of the company to Bahrain-based Arcapita...
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the Cirrus SR20, followed by the Cirrus SR22 in 2001. The companies named the design the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS), and, as of April 2023,...
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aircraft, the Cirrus Vision Jet, which in 2018 won the Collier Trophy for becoming the first single-engine personal jet with a whole-plane parachute recovery...
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Klapmeier brothers (section Cirrus Aircraft)
instead of aluminum, and, most popularly known, the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS). The Cirrus team spent several weeks during the summer of 1997...
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Scott D. Anderson (section Cirrus Aircraft)
flight-testing of the first certified whole-plane parachute recovery system, the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS), which is credited with saving over...
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deploying the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System on his Cirrus SR22 aircraft, which was experiencing engine trouble. Cirrus SR22 Parachute Deployment Caught...
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parachute. Parachutes are also used as play equipment. Airdrop Ballistic parachute Cirrus Airframe Parachute System Extreme sport Free fall Parachute...
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the airframe. This structure is typically considered to include the fuselage, undercarriage, empennage and wings, and excludes the propulsion system. Airframe...
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1982. Cirrus Airframe Parachute System, developed by the Klapmeier brothers and tested by Scott Anderson in 1998 as the first whole-plane parachute recovery...
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pilot of the Cirrus, which was a private rental aircraft on a local flight from Centennial Airport, deployed the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS) and...
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Pilot chute (category Parachuting)
articles Ballistic parachute Cirrus Airframe Parachute System Drogue parachute Paragliding Parachute Parachute landing fall Parachuting Rogallo wing https://www...
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particles Cirrus Airframe Parachute System, a whole-aircraft emergency parachute system developed by Ballistic Recovery Systems and Cirrus Collective...
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pilot; successfully flew all in-flight test-deployments of the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System; inducted into Minnesota Aviation Hall of Fame (2010) Mike...
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gives pilots the chance to learn how and when to deploy the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System. AOPA (25 October 2016). "Migration Fosters Ideas, Enthusiasm...
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from NASA that same year. A decade later, Overmyer died while testing the Cirrus VK-30 homebuilt aircraft. Overmyer was born on July 14, 1936, to Rolandus...
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their inclusion of the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS) on the aircraft. 2018 - The Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System (Auto-GCAS) team, which...
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Anderson (1965–1999) – author, engineer, military aviator, Cirrus Airframe Parachute System test pilot Sydney Anderson (1881–1948) – member of U.S. Congress...
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perhaps best known for being equipped with the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS), an emergency parachute capable of lowering the entire aircraft (and...
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B&F Fk14 Polaris (redirect from Cirrus SRS)
late 1990s, it remains in production as of 2024. The Cirrus SR Sport, simply called the Cirrus SRS, was a version of the B&F Fk14 Polaris that was intended...
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announced that Cirrus Aircraft would produce composite airframe components for the A5 at its Grand Forks, North Dakota, facility. The airframe parts would...
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tube that comes out of the instrument panel. In the case of the Cirrus SR20 and Cirrus SR22, although the control looks like a side stick, it works like...
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cockpit instruments heavily damaged by impact and fire. The Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS) was deployed, but it appeared to have been activated...
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experiences fuel-transferring problems and Morton deploys the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System to ditch safely into the ocean. There he is picked up by the...
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a lower rate of descent than the competitor Cirrus SR22 can achieve with its airframe ballistic parachute deployed. In a 2011 analysis by Aviation Consumer...
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De Havilland DH.60 Moth (redirect from De Havilland Cirrus Moth)
was developed from the larger DH.51 biplane. The first flight of the ADC Cirrus-powered prototype DH.60 Moth (registration G-EBKT) was carried out by Geoffrey...
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along with a cabin around 1 to 2 in (3 to 5 cm) wider that either the Cirrus SR-22 or Cessna 400. The general configuration adopted for the aircraft...
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