A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft descends under its parachutes at the end of the Demo-1 test flight in March. A test of the parachutes for that spacecraft in April failed when the parachutes didn't ...
Whole-airplane parachutes can be lifesavers in situations ranging from engine failure to unrecovered spins to simply running out of fuel. Ever since Boris Popov introduced his “ballistic recovery ...
New development agreement will equip Parallel Flight Technologies’ Firefly cargo UAV with ParaZero parachute recovery systems. Parallel Flight Technologies’ 122 kg MTOW (maximum takeoff weight) ...
As Pvt. Robert C. Hillman prepared to jump from a C-47 plane into enemy territory, he was confident in the quality of his parachute. It was the early-morning hours of June 6, 1944, at the beginning of ...