Bye Aerospace selects Aviation Safety Resources to develop parachute recovery system for eFlyer2

Bye Aero­space has select­ed Ken­tucky-based Avi­a­tion Safe­ty Resources (ASR) to sup­ply whole air­craft recov­ery para­chutes sys­tems for its eFlyer2 air­craft.

Under the terms of the agree­ment, ASR will design, pro­to­type, test and deliv­er a recov­ery sys­tem specif­i­cal­ly for the all-elec­tric air­craft.

George E. Bye, CEO of Bye Aero­space, said: “We are thrilled to add ASR to our Tier 1 team of trust­ed part­ners. We know we can rely on ASR’s inno­v­a­tive and mar­ket-lead­ing tech­nolo­gies to fur­ther enhance safe­ty and we appre­ci­ate their full sup­port in meet­ing our deliv­ery dates.

“The syn­er­gy of all the eFlyer2 sys­tems and how they’re dis­played, how they’re mon­i­tored, along with the safe­ty and redun­dan­cy required, are all brand new. They are the result of close col­lab­o­ra­tion between our team and a num­ber of inno­v­a­tive sup­pli­ers. We con­tin­ue to push for­ward on our FAA cer­ti­fi­ca­tion pro­gramme with effi­cien­cy and urgency, remain­ing focused on safe­ty as our high­est pri­or­i­ty.

ASR’s Sote­ria Emer­gency Recov­ery Sys­tems will help to enhance safe­ty and reduce weight, vol­ume and repack inter­vals. The com­pa­ny pre­dom­i­nant­ly designs, tests and pro­duces emer­gency recov­ery sys­tems for the avi­a­tion indus­try.

Lar­ry Williams, ASR pres­i­dent and CEO, added: “Our Sote­ria line whole-air­craft emer­gency recov­ery para­chute sys­tems are designed to safe­ly bring down an entire air­craft and its occu­pants in the event of a severe inflight emer­gency.

“Sote­ria solu­tions pro­vide air­craft design­ers and, ulti­mate­ly cus­tomers, sleek­er instal­la­tions and more cost-effec­tive safe­ty solu­tions. We look for­ward to col­lab­o­rat­ing with the Bye Aero­space team to devel­op a recov­ery sys­tem that match­es the unique con­fig­u­ra­tion of the eFlyer2.”  

Williams said ASR’s patent­ed tech­nol­o­gy and enhanced design pro­vide space sav­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties and reduce weight com­pared to tra­di­tion­al sys­tems. In addi­tion, Sote­ria uses high-tech mate­ri­als that extend repack cycles, reduc­ing over­all oper­at­ing costs over the life of the air­craft. 

Ear­li­er this year, Bye Aero­space resumed flight test­ing of its eFly­er demon­stra­tor fol­low­ing a brief pause due to the Covid-19 pan­dem­ic. The com­pa­ny says the eFly­er fam­i­ly of air­craft will elim­i­nate the release of mil­lions of met­ric tons of CO₂ each year for pilot train­ing.