Sat, Apr 21, 2007
If Successful, Would Be Option On Super Star
It's becoming clearer every day that Diamond Aircraft intends
its upcoming, five-place DA50 Super Star single piston aircraft to
go wingtip-to-wingtip against the offerings of a certain company in
Duluth, MN... and to that end, it's likely the plane will also
become the first Diamond piston offering to sport a ballistic
recovery parachute, as well.
Larry Williams, CEO of Ballistic Recovery Systems, told
attendees at Lakeland 2007 Friday his company is working with
Diamond to develop a BRS parachute option for the largest DA model.
If successful, the implementation would represent the largest
piston single-engine certified aircraft to offer a parachute.
"This arrangement, upon completion, will represent another step
that will make our vision of parachutes on more airplanes a
reality," Williams said.
BRS also manufactures the ballistic recovery parachute system
installed as standard equipment in the Cirrus SR20 and SR22.
Diamond says its game plan will differ slightly from its
competitor.
"The DA50 Super Star will be certified to fly without the
parachute," Diamond CEO Christian Dries said earlier in the day,
from the AERO 2007 show in Friedrichshafen, Germany. "A successful
program will result in a parachute that will be offered as an
option and we are pleased to select BRS as our development partner
in the DA50 program."
This isn't the first time Diamond and BRS have worked together.
BRS is also working to develop the so-called "5500"-series
ballistic 'chute for Diamond's upcoming single engine D-Jet.
Williams told ANN tests of the system intended for the D-Jet are
progressing nicely.
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