Air Systems and Spin-Stall Recovery

Overview

Airborne Systems has extensive experience and expertise in a variety of applications related to aircraft safety and effectiveness, weapons delivery, and delivery of personnel and cargo to the war-fighter.

Aircraft applications include spin and stall recovery systems for flight test, aircraft escape systems – ejection seat and walk around, and aircraft landing brakes.

Weapons systems include decelerators for both conventional, sub-munitions, and special weapons.

Military systems include gliding and non-gliding personnel parachutes for all classes of air drop, as well as conventional and precision cargo delivery systems. Airborne Systems also supports the U.S. Missile Defense Agency by providing a number of air launch systems to deliver targets for use in the testing of missile defense systems.

Aerial Targets

Aircraft Landing Deceleration Systems

Airborne Systems has provided aircraft landing deceleration systems for a range of different aircraft over many years. Airborne Systems is the designer and the only original equipment manufacturer for F-16 deceleration systems, and continues to build systems for legacy aircraft including the F-5 and B-52.

Aircraft Escape Systems and Ejection Seats

A range of our aircraft escape systems for use on ejection seats are in service on thousands of aircraft around the world.

Airborne Systems continues to develop modern systems intended to allow safe and survivable escape by aircraft personnel over a wide range of weight classes. These modern systems are being developed for use in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and for retrofit into the fleet of existing aircraft ejection seats.

Weapon Deployment Systems

Airborne Systems continues to provide and support many different parachute systems for weapons products. On-going product development programs are focused on the next generation of systems, and Airborne Systems continues to support the existing inventory of equipment, including the Air Inflatable Retarder (AIR) system for the BSU-49/BSU-85 series of weapons.

Aircraft Spin and Stall Recovery Systems

Airborne Systems is the world premier provider of aircraft spin/stall recovery parachute systems. Airborne Systems experience in the field extends for over 50 years, starting with the early DC-9 aircraft and continuing through to systems for most of the current major aircraft manufacturers.

Airborne Systems provides complete systems including the parachute systems, typically mortar-deployed, the attach/release mechanism (ARM) systems, the cockpit control avionics and support structures.

Cockpit Control Systems

Airborne Systems provides control systems for both pyrotechnic and servomotor devices. Built-in-test (BIT) systems have both enhanced flight test safety and reduced system maintenance between flights.

Customers can count on Airborne Systems knowledge of recovery system controller design to support their own designs. Our full knowledge of BIT integration and pyrotechnic device safety and testing is available to support our customers’ controller design and development requirements.

Aircraft Escape Systems

Flight Termination Systems