Tue, Nov 15, 2005
Cirrus Co-Founder Receives Admiral Luis de Florez Flight Safety
Award
It is well known in the
aero-community that Cirrus co-founder Alan Klapmeier survived a
midair collision while on a training flight in 1984. This event
later influenced the decision to equip all certified
Cirrus aircraft with ballistic recovery system parachutes.
It is also why the Flight Safety Foundation selected Klapmeier
to receive its 2005 Admiral Luis de Florez Award, "for fulfilling a
commitment to safety in the design and manufacture of personal
airplanes," according to a foundation release.
The award, presented by FSF since 1966, recognizes "outstanding
individual contributions to aviation safety, through basic design,
device or practice," according to the foundation's website.
The Admiral Luis de Florez Award is named after a retired US
Navy Admiral who was influential in developing the earliest flight
simulators. Adm. Florez also received the coveted Collier Trophy in
1943, and served as Foundation president in the mid 1950s.
The Cirrus SR20 was certified in 1998 with the Cirrus Airframe
Parachute System (CAPS, and the system has been standard in every
Cirrus airplane since. CAPS is designed to lower the airframe
safely to the ground in an emergency, and is seen as a last-resort
method -- as it was when the first CAPS was deployed in 2002, when
a near-separation of an aileron left an SR22 uncontrollable.
The pilot survived, as have nine other passengers involved in
five CAPS deployments since.
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