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What the devil is that about? I found an interesting placard/decal on a small airplane; I'll have to find it and post it to see if anyone knows more.

It prevents grass fires.

You really don't want the defensive countermeasures lighting off when the aircraft is on the ground.

Lucas wrote:What the devil is that about? I found an interesting placard/decal on a small airplane; I'll have to find it and post it to see if anyone knows more.

Sight unseen, I'm going to hazard a guess that it's got a BRS chute.

ShanwickOceanic wrote:

Lucas wrote:What the devil is that about? I found an interesting placard/decal on a small airplane; I'll have to find it and post it to see if anyone knows more.

Sight unseen, I'm going to hazard a guess that it's got a BRS chute.

Well, I'm actually just interested in the story of it. It seems like a quaint little piece of history that I had the fortune to stumble across.






Very nice placard.

I was wrong Google isn't giving me much except a much more battered version of the same decal on anet. I guess '91 was before there was much of a WWW to post these things to.

After some digging, I came up with this, which seems to be related:

http://alaskaairmen.org/index.php?page_id=203

ShanwickOceanic wrote:I was wrong Google isn't giving me much except a much more battered version of the same decal on anet. I guess '91 was before there was much of a WWW to post these things to.

After some digging, I came up with this, which seems to be related:

http://alaskaairmen.org/index.php?page_id=203

It looks like you'd need a Russian to accompany you to make the flight, or at least you'd need to speak fluent Russian. That's pretty amusing. Thanks for the link.