Van’s builders have been practically begging BRS Aerospace to offer its whole-airframe emergency recovery parachutes for the lineup of popular homebuilts – and now BRS has delivered by making the rocket-fired chutes available for the Van’s RV-7 and RV-9.
It took some creative engineering to add a parachute to the RV models, but the company was finally able to make it happen. As described by BRS, the unit in the RV is stowed in a specially designed frame suspended from structural aluminum angles spanning the upper longerons and the back of the aft baggage bulkhead. The parachute deploys out of the right side of the fuselage behind the wing and angles upward.
