RESCUE EQUIPMENT AT CRASH OR EMERGENCY LANDING OF AIRCRAFT

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide rescue equipment when an airplane under a flight malfunction crashes into the ground or the water, or makes an emergency landing on the ground or the water.;SOLUTION: In an emergent case, parachutes stored in the nose of the airplane, the middle and rear of an airplane body are delivered and opened in the air. At the same time, gaseous helium is fed into gas bags fitted on the lower portion of the airplane body and the lower surface of a main wing so as to expand it, so that the dropping speed of the airplane is decreased for soft landing. Even if the airplane makes the emergency landing on the water, the airplane can be made to float on the water.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO