Figure 5. Oil damped thruster.
Figure 6. Emergency Rescue F-105B Aircraft.
a bundle of 41 electrical wires prior to the removal of the
severed. The blade of the cutter may be coated to
aircraft canopy. The T3 cutter has a blade attached to
prevent electrical shorting as the blade passes through
the forward end of the piston. Gas produced by burning
the current-carrying wires. Other cutters have been
propellant in the cartridge in the cutter propels the piston
designed to sever the reefing lines of parachutes.
forward, driving the blade into the wires which are to be
Unlike cable cutters, reefing
line cutters are
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