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Originally Posted by Penguin
 lucky guy if he only burned his feet!
what is it the black thing with the red fabric that flies from the plane shortly before the parachute launches? (around 17 secs) Is it the roof of the plane or the initial parachute? |
Its the 'drouge chute' of sorts. It appears to be a projectile with a sleeve that is 'shot' out and pulls the main chute out of its storage. The main chute is packed into the sleeve and only fills once the sleeve is slipped off.
By the way.. yea thats about exactly how I would expect a plane to react after shearing off a wing.
What gets me is it was not exactly under heavy stress when it failed. Negative stress yest but not like he was 'yanking it'.