Aviation technology: a parachute for the entire airplane
The American Cirrus was the first to launch mass production of these back in the late 90s - after an accident in which one of the company's founders was involved. Since then it has been their trademark.
Now such systems are also found in some single-engine models of Slovenian Pipistrel, American ICON, Van's, Cessna and not only. Basically all of them offer parachute as an option, but Cirrus has it as standard.
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