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Performance & safety ! |
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Alongside its taste for innovation and development of new technology, AGA and
its close partners have always been looking to the future of aviation by improving both performance and safety of flight.
Beside the fact that our products are far more advanced in terms of technology than any other product on the aviation
market, we are constantly working in making them being safer.
Just as for the aircraft structure and design for performance, the same care is taken into designing the safest and most
efficient systems to improve our products overall safety.
The BRS system from the BRS Inc. company is now available on most of our products. BRS Inc. has recently achieved the
technological ability to develop parachute systems for conventional aircraft, and has proved the reliability of their
systems by saving 111 pilots lives, with over 14,000 systems sold world wide (source from BRS Inc).
Tests have been performed in real flight conditions. A video of the spin test deployment is now available online to show
both the reliability of the BRS system and the safety of our airplanes. |
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Extreme testing conditions !
"The airplane was climbing at a 50ƒ pitch attitude and then brutally forced into a spin by the company test pilot. Because
the airplane had a tendency to exit the spin quite easily, for the purpose of the test, the CG was pushed behind its aft
limit in order to test the airplane in the most extreme configuration. The airplane was established into a flat spin quite
rapidly and was spinning at a rate of about 180ƒ per second. After fifteen rotations, passing 5000 feet MSL (3500 AGL) the
pilot pulled the handle of the BRS system, the airplane stopped its rotation in less that one and a half turn. According to
the pilot, the opening was quite smooth and reassuring. The rate of descent of the plane was then stabilized at approximately
20 feet/second. The pilot was still able to act on the throttle and the controls of the plane to guide it during its
descent."
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equipped with a wide-angle lens for a larger view. |
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