Announce Business Alliance, Fast-Track Factory Installation Is Expected By Late Summer

Ballistic Recovery Systems has announced that it has signed a strategic alliance agreement with Symphony Aircraft Industries (SAI). The Joint agreement allows Symphony, to fast track the first factory BRS installations and make the Three Rivers Quebec based airplane company the first certificated high-wing design to offer the parachute factory installed.  This combined offering is the basis for an ongoing business relationship that will lead to the BRS system integration possible on every factory plane from Symphony.

"Ballistic Recovery Systems is pleased to be in alliance with Symphony Aircraft," proclaims Mr. Larry E. Williams, President and Chief Operating Officer of BRS. "This is a joint-initiative to market and promote the safety benefits of a whole airplane emergency recovery parachute. The alliance is an opportunity to those purchasing a Symphony aircraft to have the option to add the BRS system when the aircraft is built. We look forward to a successful partnership and will continue to look for other opportunities with other partners. This alliance between Symphony Aircraft and BRS is a sign of the future."

Symphony Aircraft President and CEO Paul Costanzo said, "Symphony Aircraft is proud to offer the only certified 2 Place aircraft with the BRS system. With its superior useful load and large baggage compartment, the Symphony 160 is the only certified 2 Place aircraft that can accommodate the system. The strategic alliance between Symphony Aircraft and BRS is good news for general aviation."

The factory availability of a parachute system designed into a high wing plane will provide a measure of passenger comfort and demonstrate to pilots how cooperation with an aircraft manufacturer can lead to a well integrated design with no aerodynamic, weight or balance compromises.

SAI is targeting certification for the Symphony 160 with the BRS on-board emergency system for late July 2005, with deliveries beginning in September, 2005. "It is well known by passengers that having a parachute is a positive factor immediately, but even more telling is that high pilot acceptance is realized after they have flown parachute equipped airplanes for hundreds of hour's enroute, over terrain, after maintenance and at night. A parachute gives the pilot another "out" in the decision chain; it gets pilots in the air and an out on trips," said John Gilmore-VP Sales and Marketing of BRS Inc.

Founded in 1980 and based in South St. Paul, Minnesota Ballistic Recovery Systems Inc, BRS has sold nearly 20,000 of its whole-plane parachute systems; BRS units have been documented to have saved over 177 lives.

FMI: www.brsparachutes.com, www.symphonyaircraft.com