Plane Parachutes do work...

[Slartibartfast]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/18/wing_loss/

 

Aerobatic pilot loses a wing so pops the parachute for the old silk let down...

[+MigBuster]

Thats a fantastic system!

[Derk]

Funny thing, before seeing this, I litterally just put down the phone after a chat with a bussiness relation about planes with chutes and I have recently flown a Cirrus for an hour or so that has the same system........ Sure gives you a safe feeling

 

Hou doe,

 

Derk

[ezlead]

The old "Nylon Letdown to a full stop".

Terrific system for aerobatic aircraft.

[macelena]

I heard an old spanish phantom pilot, that, in the event of stall-spin, the last choice before ejection was to deploy the tail chute to stabilize the aircraft. He didn´t say it was ever used this way, however.

[Abhi]

volvo of the air!!!!!!

[Rambler 1-1]

I heard an old spanish phantom pilot, that, in the event of stall-spin, the last choice before ejection was to deploy the tail chute to stabilize the aircraft. He didn´t say it was ever used this way, however.

 

Yeah, I have heard of the drag 'chute being used in emergencies like that. The idea is that it pulls the tail up in a flat spin, pointing the nose down so the spin becomes recoverable. If I remember right, there were problems with the 'chutes not deploying properly and getting tangled up in the tail, though.