Compilation of Data on Crew Emergency Escape Systems
Compilation of Data on Crew Emergency Escape Systems

Author: John O. Bull

Publisher:

Published: 1966

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13:

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A comprehensive group of appropriate open ejection seats, encapsulated ejection seats, cockpit pod capsules, separable nose capsules, and subsystems are described. The descriptions provide information on items such as initiation, crew positioning and restraint, emergency pressurization and oxygen, seat-man separation, capsule separation, rocket motors, rocket catapults, stabilization, deceleration, recovery parachute, landing impact attenuation, flotation, location aids, and survival equipment or provisions. Information is also provided on escape system performance, tests, accelerations experienced, stability characteristics, trajectories, escape time sequence, envelope dimensions, weights, production or development status, and projected system improvements.

Recovery System Design Guide
Recovery System Design Guide

Author: E. G. Ewing

Publisher:

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13:

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This document serves as the third revision of the USAF Parachute Handbook which was first published in 1951. The data and information represent the current state of the art relative to recovery system design and development. The initial chapters describe representative recovery applications, components, subsystems, material, manufacture and testing. The final chapters provide empirical data and analytical methods useful for predicting performance and presenting a definitive design of selected components into a reliable recovery system.

Fundamentals of Aerospace Medicine
Fundamentals of Aerospace Medicine

Author: Jeffrey Davis

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Published: 2021-04-14

Total Pages: 1262

ISBN-13: 1975143876

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Encompassing all occupants of aircraft and spacecraft—passengers and crew, military and civilian—Fundamentals of Aerospace Medicine, 5th Edition, addresses all medical and public health issues involved in this unique medical specialty. Comprehensive coverage includes everything from human physiology under flight conditions to the impact of the aviation industry on public health, from an increasingly mobile global populace to numerous clinical specialty considerations, including a variety of common diseases and risks emanating from the aerospace environment. This text is an invaluable reference for all students and practitioners who engage in aeromedical clinical practice, engineering, education, research, mission planning, population health, and operational support.

Parachute Recovery Systems
Parachute Recovery Systems

Author: Theo W. Knacke

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13:

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The purpose of this manual is to provide recovery system engineers in government and industry with tools to evaluate, analyze, select, and design parachute recovery systems. These systems range from simple, one-parachute assemblies to multiple-parachute systems, and may include equipment for impact attenuation, flotation, location, retrieval, and disposition. All system aspects are discussed, including the need for parachute recovery, the selection of the most suitable recovery system concept, concept analysis, parachute performance, force and stress analysis, material selection, parachute assembly and component design, and manufacturing. Experienced recovery system engineers will find this publication useful as a technical reference book; recent college graduates will find it useful as a textbook for learning about parachutes and parachute recovery systems; and technicians with extensive practical experience will find it useful as an engineering textbook that includes a chapter on parachute- related aerodynamics. In this manual, emphasis is placed on aiding government employees in evaluating and supervising the design and application of parachute systems. The parachute recovery system uses aerodynamic drag to decelerate people and equipment moving in air from a higher velocity to a lower velocity and to a safe landing. This lower velocity is known as rate of descent, landing velocity, or impact velocity, and is determined by the following requirements: (1) landing personnel uninjured and ready for action, (2) landing equipment and air vehicles undamaged and ready for use or refurbishment, and (3) impacting ordnance at a preselected angle and velocity.