Why can't airplanes have more safety measures???

I think it is funny, your posting. I asked myself these same questions years ago. My father was a private pilot. I want to take up flying but I just want an old biplane type. A friend and his brother used to fly to school before they were old enough to drive!

I did a few sketches of the parachute concept. I think, am almost certain, a company has since fully developed this as a safety feature for a small craft.

I would gladly sacrifice time of travel for a wing design that offered a glide feature.

cr3

http://www.brsparachutes.com/default.aspx

whole aircraft recovery...

this is brilliant!!! I love planes but I hate planes!!! every time they send me to china im like, oh my god, this could be it! having a parachute I am very shure that I am safe..... unless it is the landing or the take off ! gulp!

engineers have a lot of work to do!!

Airplanes could have all of this 'stuff' but then they could not fly. For every pound of airplane they have to have x pounds of fuel to get off the ground and you could add systems such that there could be no extra weight added so you could not be a passenger unless you weighed nothing.

All airplanes will fly without engines - just not as far. The faster an airplane will fly the less range it will have if the engines fail. You could make (to some degree) a passenger airplane look like a sailplane but instead of taking 2 hours to get to Chicago it would take several days. As in all engineering problems you have to understand that in order to get one advantage you have to give up two others so it is just a matter of finding the best compromise.

You could decide that you want to take no risks so you had better not get out of bed in the morning but, then again, 90% of people die in bed so there is NO safe place.

but this is different. The risk I am worried about is that if your plane goes down, you know you are dead. Unlike a car crash, or a caribean cruise, or even a motorcycle crash you have a better chance of surviving. Ofcourse it happens 1 in like a 100,000 flights (i am not sure about the stadistics) but I still find it hard to believe that a parachute can't be deployed on a 747 and weights 2 or 3 passengers more? common

All airplanes will fly without engines - just not as far.

Given your statement, then elk can fly. So can rocks, water, trees. Hell, you and I can fly. Just take 'em up a few hundred, or thousand feet, and watch 'em fly!

Please.

cr3

hahahaha

lets put on our 'bat suits' and try it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63CwsiAqLcA

Wingsuit- this is what you need

HOLY S*@T ! That is the coolest thing I have ever seen! (today).

Seriously that is waaaaaaayyyyyyy awesome!

"That's not flying, that's falling with style!"

(from Buzz Lightyear)

I saw a program show tests being done on aircraft with airbags.

I think that's about the best you can expect.

It's not the aircraft that are faulty but the people that make them.

We can all have a fear for flying and then yet we still get into cars and drive somewhere. Some of us get into cars drunk and drive somewhere.

And yet we have a fear of flying.

100% safety?

Where would you stop, offramp and on ramp terminal of the plane, the car that gets you to the plane, the stairs you use to leave your house, your bathroom you use to get in the morning of the flight..

Risk is everywhere?

I want my five minutes back