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Whole Aircraft Recovery Parachute Tested for Bye's eFlyer 2 Model
Parachute developer Aviation Safety Resources used barrels of water to simulate the eFlyer's weight in drop tests from a helicopter.
Bye eFlyer 2
The Bye Aerospace eFlyer 2 will have a specially developed whole-aircraft parachute system that can be deployed in the event of an emergency to allow it to safely land. (Photo: Bye Aerospace)

Aviation Safety Resources (ASR) has conducted the first tests for the parachute recovery system it is developing for the Bye Aerospace eFlyer 2 electric aircraft. The company today reported that in late February it deployed the whole-aircraft parachute with a load equivalent to the weight of the two-seat aircraft in the first of a series of tests conducted at Henderson in Nevada.

For the test, ASR filled barrels of water to represent the weight of the eFlyer 2. These were attached to the parachute and then dropped from a helicopter at 6,600 feet with the aircraft accelerating to the maximum speed at which the system can be deployed.

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