Happy landings

David Jones

Nature, 1999, vol. 402, issue 6761, 477-477

Abstract: When things go wrong on an aircraft there is sometimes little the pilot can do to keep it in the air. Ideally, then, aircraft should be fitted with parachutes for a safe descent in the event of an emergency. In practice, a big enough parachute would occupy almost the whole interior of the plane, so Daedalus has a plan to deploy a small parachute, but one that descends a little faster than the aircraft just before it hits the ground.

Date: 1999
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