[size=12pt][/size]Rather interesting airplane. Check the videos on their site. A few very good ideas, and a couple not so good. What caught my eye, was the parachute. Not a problem for You people with the flying lawn mower, weed cutters, as you can land about anywhere. With fixed wing, finding a place to land is a problem. Launch, just throw it into the air. Most of the aircraft are designed for slow stable flight, so landings can mean a long run-out, unless you are good enough to catch the plane. Spoilers, flaps, crow ( butterfly ) can help, but you still Need a good, clear area, for the mandatory landing. No doubt, this thing is expensive, but there are good ideas for a scratch builder, or the guy who likes to modify! ( hack? ) That’s me -- http://www.trigger.pl/pteryx/Applications.php Larry
Yup, certainly looks like to me too, probabley needed for quick and easy access to the varied payloads Also not to burst your bubble LEM as it is an interesting feature you don't see often, but a parachute option have been available for airplanes for quite some time. I remember reading about them on full size aircraft, yup I said full size aircraft back in the 80's. Mostly on full size (1:1 scale) Cessna's and similar sized aircraft. As the size of the aircraft increases it's practically lowers, which means you wouldn't see em on the new AIRBUS A380. Most used during an emergency where there's no immediate place to land or place to land dead stick in open terrain. Yup in short great for light aircraft where life and limb are at risk ...
Wood, I remember Bubbles! She was very popular! As for the parachutes, I remember those also. Spent a bit of time under them. Buy me a beer sometime and I will fill you in. I was always amused by the militaries standard lecture when they fired up the engines. They had this silly idea about everyone riding down to the crash site when they screwed up. Just never seemed like a good idea to me- I never had any objections to a pilot killing himself, I just didn’t want to be with him -- Larry
