Aeronautics and astronautics – Aircraft sustentation – Sustaining airfoils
Patent
1978-02-17
1980-02-12
Frankfort, Charles E.
Aeronautics and astronautics
Aircraft sustentation
Sustaining airfoils
244138R, 9 4R, 9 11A, B63C 900
Patent
active
041875702
ABSTRACT:
A personnel evacuation and survival device for individual crewmen aboard p having a quick don harness to which is attached a personnel lowering device and an automatically deployable encapsulating life raft. From an appropriate evacuation station aboard the ship, the crewman uses the device to suspend himself clear of the side and lower himself on a lifeline, the pay-out of which is controlled to provide a safe rate of descent. During the descent, a raft package is automatically released and a life raft is inflated which completely encapsulates the crewman prior to water entry.
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Frankfort Charles E.
Hansen Henry
Keen D. W.
Sciascia R. S.
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of
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