Is there such a thing as a rocket opening parachute?

In other words a rocket attached to a metal static line that pulls a parachute
out of a bag and makes it open almost instantaneously?


I am thinking of safe ways of testing a tilt rotor aircraft.

Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

Paul... isn't that precisely what the BRS (ballistic recovery system) is all
about... a ballistic deployment, a slider ring to accommodate fast vs. slow
speed filling of the chute.   ????  am I missing something here???

Gary Buster
N263GB
Tyler Texas

I am not sure. I don't know how it works.

I would not necessarily like to save the airplane. Just the pilot from
and open cockpit.

-- 
Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor

Paul:

I think the Germans were looking at this for the Dornier 335 push-puller in
WWII.  Also believe that a compressed air "rocket" system has been tried
before.  That Russian co-ax gunship apparently blows off the rotor hub with
a charge and has an ejection seat.

best,

George W

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