Wed, Apr 13, 2005
Announce Business Alliance, Fast-Track Factory Installation Is
Expected By Late Summer
Ballistic Recovery Systems has
announced that it has signed a strategic alliance agreement with
Symphony Aircraft Industries (SAI). The Joint agreement allows
Symphony, to fast track the first factory BRS installations and
make the Three Rivers Quebec based airplane company the first
certificated high-wing design to offer the parachute factory
installed. This combined offering is the basis for an ongoing
business relationship that will lead to the BRS system integration
possible on every factory plane from Symphony.
"Ballistic Recovery Systems is pleased to be in alliance with
Symphony Aircraft," proclaims Mr. Larry E. Williams, President and
Chief Operating Officer of BRS. "This is a joint-initiative to
market and promote the safety benefits of a whole airplane
emergency recovery parachute. The alliance is an opportunity to
those purchasing a Symphony aircraft to have the option to add the
BRS system when the aircraft is built. We look forward to a
successful partnership and will continue to look for other
opportunities with other partners. This alliance between Symphony
Aircraft and BRS is a sign of the future."
Symphony Aircraft President and CEO Paul Costanzo said,
"Symphony Aircraft is proud to offer the only certified 2 Place
aircraft with the BRS system. With its superior useful load and
large baggage compartment, the Symphony 160 is the only certified 2
Place aircraft that can accommodate the system. The strategic
alliance between Symphony Aircraft and BRS is good news for general
aviation."
The factory availability of a parachute system designed into a
high wing plane will provide a measure of passenger comfort and
demonstrate to pilots how cooperation with an aircraft manufacturer
can lead to a well integrated design with no aerodynamic, weight or
balance compromises.
SAI is targeting certification for the Symphony 160 with the BRS
on-board emergency system for late July 2005, with deliveries
beginning in September, 2005. "It is well known by passengers that
having a parachute is a positive factor immediately, but even more
telling is that high pilot acceptance is realized after they have
flown parachute equipped airplanes for hundreds of hour's enroute,
over terrain, after maintenance and at night. A parachute gives the
pilot another "out" in the decision chain; it gets pilots in the
air and an out on trips," said John Gilmore-VP Sales and Marketing
of BRS Inc.
Founded in 1980 and based in South St. Paul, Minnesota Ballistic
Recovery Systems Inc, BRS has sold nearly 20,000 of its whole-plane
parachute systems; BRS units have been documented to have saved
over 177 lives.
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