US company Ballistic Recovery Systems (BRS) is to provide a parachute for around $40,000 for the Italian aerospace research center, CIRA’s, balloon dropped transonic flight tests using its unmanned ...

Ballistic Recovery Systems is designing a two-stage deployment parachute system for aircraft in the class of very light jets. BRS officials say the company is beginning development work on a recovery ...

Parasafe recovery systems support FAA approved high altitude unmanned aircraft operations focused on drought mitigation and water security. SAN MARTIN, CA / EL ...

Ballistic Parachute Recovery Systems (BPRS), while designed to save lives in flight, pose significant hazards to first responders at aircraft crash sites due to the undeployed rocket used for ...

French investigators believe use of a ballistic-recovery parachute in an emergency should be emphasised – and even simulated – prior to flight, following an analysis of accidents in which such systems ...

WASHINGTON -- Canadian rancher Albert Kolk's small plane banked uncontrollably in darkness over the Monashee mountains, then began spiraling toward earth. "Seat belts!" he barked to his teenage ...