They fine-tuned many items, including how the whole-airplane parachutes rocket extracts the system, and how the slider, the white ring that travels down the cords, keeps the parachute from opening ...

The Cirrus Vision Jet is a single-engine low-wing monoplane with an all-composite material airframe, an above-fuselage rear ...

NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A powered parachute aircraft flipped while landing in Kentucky, killing the two people aboard, authorities said. The small aircraft crashed Sunday in Nicholasville ...

The next-generation D-14 Shelest airdrop parachute system is based on the strategy of going into battle immediately after leaping out of an aircraft MOSCOW, August 2. /TASS/. The latest D-14 ...

It is the world's first single-engine jet certified with a whole-aircraft parachute system, a hallmark of Cirrus Aircraft's commitment to safety. Powered by a Williams FJ33-5A turbofan engine, the ...

The SR20 was the first production general aviation aircraft equipped with a parachute to lower the airplane safely to the ground after a loss of control, structural failure or mid-air collision. It ...

A California family is lucky to be alive after their single-engine 2004 Cirrus SR22 lost power about five ... and decided to deploy the aircraft's Cirrus Airframe Parachute System.

A California couple and their two-year-old daughter survived a crash landing in their small plane last week after losing engine power and deploying the aircraft’s parachute to slow their descent ...

The diagram shows what happens to the speed of a skydiver from when they leave the aircraft, to when they reach the ground after their parachute opens. Before the parachute opens: Immediately on ...