CRASHWORTHY HELICOPTER GUNNER'S SEAT INVESTIGATION

Abstract

The poor crash-impact performance of seats designed to current military specifications was revealed by the U.S. Army in the early 1960's. It was discovered that numerous seat occupants were being injured during moderate impacts because of inadequate upper torso restraint, inadequate seat strength, absence of any meaningful vertical crash-force attenuation, and inadequate testing criteria. Following extensive design and testing efforts, improved crashworthiness design and testing criteria were developed for Army aircraft seating systems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA005563

Entities

People

  • Mason J. Reilly

Organizations

  • Boeing Rotorcraft Systems

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Army Aircraft
  • Aviation Accidents
  • Body Armor
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Fittings
  • Fixed Wing Aircraft
  • Flight Crews
  • Geometry
  • Materials
  • Rotary Wing Aircraft
  • Safety
  • Safety Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Methods

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  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Theoretical Analysis.