Wright Flyer I Model Airplane

"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

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.