Figure 5. Oil damped thruster.

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