2007/03/28 by Alexander Bolonkin, Bolonkin, Alexander
Engineering · #Aerospace Engineering and Energy Systems #Aerospace and Aviation Technology #Air Traffic Management and Optimization #FOS: Physical sciences #General Physics (physics.gen-ph) #Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.physics/0703259
openalex publication_date 2007/03/28 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Offered is a new method for saving passenger lives in any catastrofic situation, including total failure of aircraft control, extreme damage and loss aircraft wings, tail, breakdown all propelling engines, etc. It shown here that previous works which have proposed using only parachutes are useless because their proposers failed to consider the likely overload of the parachute jerk stress (at the moment of parachute release) and the impact of aircraft on Earth surface. These jeck and impact destroy aircraft and kill passengers. Offered is a connected series of related technical innovations which overcome these obvious difficalties and allow for a soft, near zero speed landing in any topographically suitable place, allowing potential to save aircraft. This method may be applied to all existing airplanes and increases their weight only about 1.5 - 2.5%. Also, the method may be used for vertically landing the already built aircraft, for example, when any runway is damaged or would become overloaded.