Disaster Evacuation jumping

[guest]

Saw this and thought you would all get a kick out of it.. read on:
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People who work or live in high-rise buildings and are worried about their safety after the 11 September terrorist attacks in New York have been offered a lifeline by an Israeli company.

Apco Aviation has developed a parachute especially designed to work when people jump from high-rise buildings.

The company's manager, Anatoly Cohn, said no previous experience was needed to operate the parachute in an emergency. It has an automatic release that activates as the person jumps.

The special parachute can only be used from a height of at least 30 metres, about as high as a building's 10th storey.

It has a military-style round canopy, not an aerobatic rectangular design, weighs 2.5 kilograms (5.5 pounds), and covers an area of 30 square metres (323 feet) when opened, Mr Cohn said.

'Better a twisted ankle'

He said an American client, Destiny Aircraft Corp., had commissioned the parachute, which is now being marketed in the United States by Executivechute Corp.

Executivechute's president, John Rivers, said a request by an insurance company had triggered an investigation into the parachute's feasibility even before 11 September, but the company had decided not to market the product.

"After 11 September, we were urged by the insurance company to market the product and get it up and going," Mr Rivers told Israel Radio.

The backpack-type parachute, priced at $795, is also being marketed in Japan.

"It's unlikely the user will know how to do the standard 'paratroop roll' upon hitting the ground," Mr Cohn told the Reuters news agency.

"But we figure a twisted ankle is a small price to pay for life."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/wor...00/1645897.stm
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here is the website for the rig.
http://www.executivechute.com/

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have fun!!!!!!!!

-Michael
http://www.michaelmcclelland.com

[guest]

Apco is a very respected name in paraglider manufacture. I used to fly an Apco wing before I decided paragliding was too dangerous and took up skydiving and base jumping.

I am pretty shocked to see their name linked with the executive chute crapola.

As your roundie floated past the burning floors, no doubt pre-heated by the smoke billowing out... hasn't anyone figured out that most of the proposed building escape systems would have burned up instantly upon contact with the inferno just below the launch...what about launches into wind on a building face? The WTC jumpers could not exactly pick their launch...

Jackasses!

[guest]

Hey arrogant BASE fucck:

Rounds are perfect for upwind launches because, unlike the wing chutes you dipshits jump, rounds don't collapse wehn they bump into things.

So let me get this straight: you'd rather have people jump without parachutes rather than jump with a parachute that might get torched by the flames.

good thinking, assshole.

a Jackass