Air Systems and Spin-Stall Recovery

Overview

Airborne Systems is a leader in aircraft safety systems, with decades of experience designing and manufacturing mission-critical solutions that save lives and protect aircraft performance. Our expertise includes aircraft safety and effectiveness, weapons development, personnel and cargo delivery, and advanced test systems.

Airborne Systems is the premier global provider of spin-and stall-recovery parachute systems. With over 50 years experience supporting aircraft manufacturers, flight test programs, and defense agencies, we deliver complete solutions that enhance flight safety and preserve aircraft integrity.

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.

Air Launch Targets

Airborne Systems has decades of experience designing, testing, analyzing and producing systems for air-launched target systems. Our engineering team is experienced in the design of all parachutes and hardware required to extract the payload and platform from aircraft. Custom designed extraction systems to your unique requirements enables execution of missions from any location an aircraft can fly.

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.

Landing & Recovery Systems

Our experience in landing and recovery systems ranges from less than 50lb vehicles, up to 10,000lb. Drawing from a deep catalogue of parachute design, Airborne utilizes decades of analysis and testing experience to provide a system to land unmanned aircraft in any orientation required enabling aircraft reuse. Airborne has designed both passive and active venting airbag systems for even further impact attenuation on airframes at touchdown.

Flight Termination Systems

Our experience in flight termination systems ranges from less than 100lb vehicles, up to 5000lb. Drawing from a deep catalogue of parachute design, Airborne utilizes decades of analysis and testing experience to provide a system to terminate flight when communications have failed or aircraft has gone off range.