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Safety Features
Paramount with aircraft is safe flying and landing characteristics. The Skywalker VTOL aircraft was designed from the beginning to contain and incorporate needed safety items.
• Ballistic BRS Parachute
Deploys in 3 seconds
The occupants stays inside the aircraft
Aircraft lands in its normal position
Above image shows BRS parachute in stowed position with bridle straps concealed in duct shrouds.
• Reliable Subaru automotive engine power
• Foreign object intake filter screen
Optional top mounted filter screen may be installed
• Sturdy landing skid
Interchangeable landing foot pads can be changed from wheels to floats to skis to . . . ?
• Electronic fly-by-wire motion controls
Can accommodate future NASA "HITS" (Highway in the Sky) display
• Flight wing and canard aileron surfaces
Computerized enhanced controls
• Padded pilots seats with 5-point safety harness
Extra protection with racing style seats
• Enclosed cockpit
Clear protective preformed windshield
Pilot and passenger shielded from the adverse elements
• Instrument panel
Displays the engine monitoring sensors
Convenient engine start switches and monitoring electronics
