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General => General Technical Chat => Topic started by: apis on June 15, 2018, 01:24:05 pm
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Witnesses reported seeing the aircraft maneuvering at low altitude before catching fire and crashing in a near vertical dive. The impact in a corn field approximately a mile from the Pecs-Pogany Airport (LHPP) caused a fire.
Source: https://fightersweep.com/10417/two-die-in-crash-of-siemens-powered-efusion-electric-airplane/
Bad battery?
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Seems silly not to have one of these
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_Recovery_Systems
especially on a prototype.
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Seems silly not to have one of these
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_Recovery_Systems
especially on a prototype.
Here’s a lot of argument about these, and whether or not they’re the “right” thing to do, because you can’t control an aircraft that’s on the end of a parachute, and who it ends up landing on. You can control a gliding aircraft though, and avoid crashing into someone’s conservatory. In the case of a fire on board though, all bets are off.
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Seems silly not to have one of these
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_Recovery_Systems
especially on a prototype.
Those ballistic chutes have to be certified for the plane, you can't just go, buy one and put it on a random ultralight/GA plane. In addition, the parachute needs certain minimum altitude to work - if they were too low, it wouldn't have helped them anyway.