Why don't they make airplanes with giant parachutes to match the weight of the plane?

rkfire

Yeah, that same guy that heads Ballistics Recovery also has proposals for large commercial airliners too. In the aircraft business it's hard to get someone to first try a prototype, and second buy and certify the device for the application.

CowboyBill

Well, if you removed two thirds of all the seats and passengers I suppose you would have enough room and weight savings to make it work.

greendonkey34

Hey thats a great idea.Maybe you could invent that.Can you imagine the money someone would make if they could get the airlines to buy that from them?

bush_kills_for_god

Good idea. But when you hit the ground, it will hurt real bad.

monie99701

the parachute would weigh so much that the plane would never leave the ground

ubet426

This is not practical, the parachute would be way to large to fit on the plane. These jumbo jets are very heavy and very large... which would require a HUGE parachute, which would require too much space in the plane... then you would have the issue of deploying the parachute....

A feasible plan, and something I have thought of before would be either, individual parachutes for each seat and an ejection system like on fighter planes or break the passenger seats into "eject-able" clusters.... it could be done, but the fact the planes don't really have many issues it is not economically feasible to implement any kind of safety feature like this.

thetravelinggardener

Better to jettision the passenger compartment forsafety and let it floatdown. But now, the fuel tanks are under the passenger compartment so they would ahave toaprovide a seperate space.

TooExpensive--Humanlife aint worth the cost necessary tofix the problem.

If our system valued life as much as money, then things might be different.

yacekiih

haha! i would be a wacky ride!!!

Phillip R

A plane can weigh upto a million tons. Thats 2 million pounds. There is no parachute that is cost effective that can provide a sure level of security for a mass that great. Letting out a huge parachute alone would cause damage to the plane too.

Paul

In order to carry this big-a$$ chute, some seats would have to be empty. There's NO WAY the airline is going to do that!

(profit is more important than your life)

airboat233

SPEED--think about it>

pukcipriavroc8v

The size of the parachute will be an issue.

The uncontrolled landing will be an issue. What if it comes down in the city?

Me again

You nimrods. The idea is already in place, and is working.

PermDude

By the time to realize you needed it, the plane would be in parts on the ground.

Seriously, nearly all problems a plane encounters is overcome by flying through it in some fashion. And remember: A plane couldn't deploy a chute (they are going too fast--the chute would be ripped to shreds) and even if they could the plane would land (hard) with the section being slightly crunched.

jareihart

BETTER YET, WHY DON'T THEY MAKE THE WHOLE PLANE OUT OF THE STUFF THE LITTLE BLACK BOX IS MADE OUT OF??? IT ALWAYS SURVIVES A WRECK!!!
1 MILLION TONS IS 2 MILLION POUNDS??? SOMEONE REACH OVER AND UNPLUG HIS COMPUTER!!!
1 million tons is 2 billion pounds... here in america anyways!

Wounded duckmate

Physics!

bullwinklejmoose

BE A PRETTY BIG CHUTE, SKIPPY!

fmfcorpsmenrsexy

haha philip r....a million tons is way more than 2 million pounds. i gues that means a 2 pound gatorade bottle is a ton huh?

fmgt

Who said it had to only be one parachute? You attach about 5 parachutes on the plane. You could do one in the back one in the middle and one in the front of the fuselage of the plane then one on each side of the wings. With todays technology they probably have some material thats super lightweight and super strong that the parachute could be made of.

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