Marc, I drink coffee with the test pilot nearly every morning and according to him he was ejected from the glider. It happened so fast that he does not remember anything until his awareness of freefalling on his back. At this time he pulled the rip cord. The cord used to limit the canopys opening distance (attached to the seat) became tangled in the drag chute as it deployed and the main chute would not deploy. He was lucky to get it untangled enough after about 7,000 feet of free-fall for the drag chute to deploy the main chute. He did not personally deploy the the BRS nor did he intentionally regress from the glider. He was ejected from the glider. Along with the seat he also took out the instrument panel with his legs. The fuselage came down with the BRS and was not destroyed upon impact. The BRS had nothing to do with him being saved other than ejecting him from the glider. It almost killed him. The wings, as they seperated from the fuselage, triggered the BRS. This is from the test pilots account of the incident. You can call this a BRS save if you desire to.
Please do not respond to this, I am through talking with you pseudo intellectuals. Bill Page boliverp...@bellsouth.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc Lee Winnig" <mlwin...@hotmail.com> To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 11:08 PM Subject: RE: KR> Glider BRS Mis-Hap - ANOTHER BRS SAVE!!! > Thanks for the link. Let's see now... >> During the test flight > sequence, the aircraft experienced an in-flight > break up when both wings separated from the fuselage while maneuvering > at 7,675 feet. The glider was reported to be equipped with a ballistic > recovery system (BRS), which was successfully deployed. Sounds to me > like the wings separated AND THEN the BRS was deployed successfully. > Pilot bailed out under his own chute. Guessing BRS will count this as > another save! LOL!!! Marc Lee Winnig > _________________________________________________________________ > Check the weather nationwide with MSN Search: Try it now! > http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=weather&FORM=WLMTAG > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html >
