Teams With Kestrel On Chute For Their Turboprop

By John Ylinen

BRS Aerospace and Flight Design announced Tuesday at AirVenture that the next generation of the BRS Chute will be on every Flight Design C4 as standard equipment. This Chute will be the next evolution with an electrical firing mechanism. This will provide them with improved capabilities allow Pilot and passengers the ability to activate the chute in conditions that the current spring firing pin cannot.

The chute will be mandatory on the C4 making it the second aircraft that has the chute on every aircraft like the Cirrus line. "It is no coincidence that Flight Design's CTLS and MC LSA models and the Cirrus SR20/22 are the industry's top selling aircraft in their market segments, and that they all include a BRS system as standard equipment... not as an option," stated Boris Popov, founder and director for BRS Aerospace.

BRS also provided an update on their Defense Cargo Drop parachute which has allow the company to greatly expand their R&D, engineering and production capabilities.

They recently opened a new facility in Pompano Beach, FL to product low velocity chutes for the DOD. It is a 125,000 SF facility employing 226 FTEs. Larry Williams (CEO and President of BRS) said this contract will be for 7-8 years and production will grow to 4500 chutes per month. He said that DOD business will allow him to conduct new R&D projects and use the DOD research and production expertise to bring new products to the aviation market. Their UAV chute will be able to be used in other LSA and Ultralight aircraft also with minimal changes.

Mr. Williams also announced that Kestrel has tasked BRS with conducting a study to determine the best way to provide chute recovery for high speed turbine aircraft.

FMI: http://brsparachutes.com, www.flightdesign.com, http://kestrel.aero/