Aeronautics and astronautics – Safety lowering devices – Passenger compartment
Patent
1990-02-08
1991-10-22
Peters, Jr., Joseph F.
Aeronautics and astronautics
Safety lowering devices
Passenger compartment
244117A, B64C 100
Patent
active
050588303
ABSTRACT:
A crew protection system designed to isolate an aircraft crew and provide a means for safely evacuating an aircraft, particularly hypersonic vehicles, in emergency situations. The crew compartment is designed within the forebody of the main vehicle. The forebody is designed so as to separate cleanly from the main vehicle as by generation of a circumferential structural break, in the event of a catastrophic failure or explosion of the main vehicle fuel tank. In the event of such an uncommanded failure of the main tank and propellant combustion, resulting in the above noted structural failure, the resultant pressure impulse thrusts the forebody containing the crew compartment clear from the remainder of the vehicle. The provision of a system of baffles in the forebody between the crew compartment and the fuel tank, and the shape of the forebody and the materials used in its construction mitigate the effects of the blast pressure impulse on the crew. The forebody is also designed to be stable during the transient period immediately following the blast and the subsequent free fall of the forebody, permitting the crew to safely evacuate the crew compartment and forebody at a preselected altitude.
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Scott Harry A.
Wurst Stephen G.
Geldin Max
Palomar Linda L.
Peters Jr. Joseph F.
Rockwell International Corporation
Silberberg Charles T.
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