Nonflammable PBI Fabrics for Prototype Air Force Flight Suits

Abstract

Candidate flight suit fabrics have been evaluated along with current Air Force issue flight suit fabrics for personnel protection in simulated aircraft accident fires. Mannequins clothed in the various coverall fabrics were examined for average percent body area burned where second degree or worse burns occurred. Use of cotton and fire retardant treated cotton flight suits resulted in an average of greater than 60 percent body area burned. Nomex coveralls resulted in greater than 30 percent average body area burned. Polybenzimidazole (PBI) resulted on the average, less than ten percent body area being burned.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1970
Accession Number
AD0880047

Entities

People

  • Robert M. Stanton
  • Stanley Schulman

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accidents
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Aircrafts
  • Aviation Accidents
  • Fabrics
  • Fire Extinguishers
  • Fire Resistant Materials
  • Fuels
  • Government (Foreign)
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Mannequins
  • Materials
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Facilities

Readers

  • Fire Suppression Systems Design.
  • Materials Science
  • Mathematics or Statistics