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Re: Parachute Flares

Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2013 8:57 am
by BEEZERBOY
I took a set out of an Apache about in the early 80s.... I took them out to the cabin & shot one off & it went about 100 feet in the air & got stuck in the top of a tree & lit the whole place up like daylight. good thing it was winter or the whole woods would have been on fire. don't remember what happened to the other two but I was done with that

Re: Parachute Flares

Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2014 4:51 am
by DoubleOught
I have them on my C170B , the 3 launch tubes and rack is still mounted (empty, I checked). They looked to be electronically fired, there's a screw cap with place to slip a wire or something into each tube, when I replaced the headliner I found a place where a fuse box or solenoid had been mounted . If I can figure out to post a picture I will. Thanks for the history lesson. OO

Re: Parachute Flares

Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2014 12:28 pm
by Bruce Fenstermacher
Your ready for commercial ops Oscar. We'd love to see some detailed pictures for our achieves. Send then to my email if you can't figure it out.

Re: Parachute Flares

Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 4:14 am
by DoubleOught
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looking down on the tubes, you can see the old wiring connection. I had to hold my phone up inside to get this one but it came out ok.

Re: Parachute Flares

Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 4:16 am
by DoubleOught
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. Looking up from aft of baggage area.

Re: Parachute Flares

Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 1:30 pm
by Bruce Fenstermacher
That is some cool high tech brown stripped composite material being used there. :wink:

Nice to actually see one pictures of one of these installations from the inside. Thanks for posting them.