Rotary Parachute

Stingray · Administrator

Rotary Parachute

tsheten8 · Veteran Member - Level 2

Wow,how could this thing work?....;-0....was it ever produced/manufactured?...

Leela25 · Global Moderator

Also see this patent:

http://www.google.com/patents?id=DDUdAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

Stingray · Administrator

Leela, thanks for your research work today. wink

tsheten8 · Veteran Member - Level 2

Thanks for the link Leela..

.just downloaded a pdf copy of the patent...

Regards
Tsheten8

Gunship · Veteran Member - Level 3

The NTRS link is broken.

Stingray · Administrator

Yeah, it seems there was some kind of issue last year that called for the review of all uploaded technical reports and removal of ones that compromise national security. Or something to that effect.

Hopefully someone's been saving all of these documents before the purge.

Leela25 · Global Moderator

FAIL

Yeah because a parachute design meant to spiral totally poses a threat to US of 'Murica. :P

aschiro · Veteran Member - Level 2

Leela, who knows but a rotary parachute is quite useful to submunitions. Just read the patent description you linked to.

scorpio213 · Senior Member - Level 2

possibly yes but depending on the weight and size of the sub munition such as the HB 876 and SG357 sub munitions which are both parachut deployed, the rotation of the parachute may provide enough force to off set the centre of gravity causing the sub munition to topple in the air and make the parchute inefective especialy with the larger SG357.

Leela25 · Global Moderator

While that's all well and good it still doesn't pose that much of a security threat guys. :P

Stingray · Administrator

Think more rationally. The subject of the report was obviously not the breach, but it might have been somewhere in the data or descriptions. ID numbers, facilities, mentions of other sensitive information, etc.

Leela25 · Global Moderator

No worries Stingy, I wasn't oblivious to that possibility. I was just kiddng around. :P