Aeronautics and astronautics – Safety lowering devices – Entire aircraft
Patent
1976-11-08
1978-09-12
Barefoot, Galen L.
Aeronautics and astronautics
Safety lowering devices
Entire aircraft
244147, B64D 1770
Patent
active
041132084
ABSTRACT:
This invention relates to an arrangement providing the safe descent to the ground of the fuselage of an aircraft when it has been disabled. The pilot of the aircraft when it is disabled actuates any suitable control mechanism on the dash panel to automatically release a parachute, the cables depending therefrom being affixed to the center of gravity of the aircraft for the safe descent thereof under the action of the parachute. The parachute is stored within a cradle or the like housing which is maintained in inoperative position within a storage well provided in the fuselage and this storage well is closed by a releasable closure member to which the cradle is affixed. When the pilot of the aircraft actuates the mechanism on the dash panel, the closure member for the storage well may open, and along with the cradle containing the parachute, swings upwardly to operative position and this operative position from which the parachute is ejected from the cradle is positioned above the horizontal plane of the topmost portion of the tail assembly of the aircraft. Additional mechanism is also provided for ejecting the cradle out of the storage well and into this uppermost operative position. Automatic mechanism is associated with the closure member and is operable upon the opening thereof to actuate additional mechanism for ejecting the parachute from the cradle.
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