Aeronautics and astronautics – Aircraft structure – Passenger or cargo loading or discharging
Patent
1981-04-30
1983-10-04
Barefoot, Galen L.
Aeronautics and astronautics
Aircraft structure
Passenger or cargo loading or discharging
89 1B, 102378, F42B 100, B64C 132
Patent
active
044074689
ABSTRACT:
A lightweight, add-on structure which employs linear shaped pyrotechnic charges 40 to smoothly cut an airframe 10 along an egress area periphery 30 and compromises reaction surfaces 62 attached to the exterior surface of the airframe's skin 20 and designed to restrict the skin deflection and jettison that portion of the airframe within the egress area periphery 30 and retention surfaces 72 and sealing walls 78 attached to the interior surface of the airframe's skin 20 and designed to shield the interior of the aircraft during detonation of the pyrotechnic charges 40.
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Bailey James W.
Bement Laurence J.
Barefoot Galen L.
Manning John R.
Nelson Wallace J.
Osborn Howard J.
The United States of America as represented by the Administrator
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