Crashworthy Helo Seat.The Naval Air Systems Command The Naval Air Systems Command, or NAVAIR, is the part of the United States Navy which provides materiel support for naval aircraft and airborne weapon systems, such as guided missiles. NAVAIR was established in 1966 as the successor to the Navy's Bureau of Naval Weapons (BuWeps). announced qualification of the new Common Crash Resistant Troop Seat System for future Navy helicopters. Designed to accommodate and protect nearly any size person--from an unequipped Adj. 1. unequipped - without necessary physical or intellectual equipment; "guerrillas unequipped for a pitched battle"; "unequipped for jobs in a modern technological society" passenger in the 5th percentile percentile, n the number in a frequency distribution below which a certain percentage of fees will fall. E.g., the ninetieth percentile is the number that divides the distribution of fees into the lower 90% and the upper 10%, or that fee level of body mass to a fully equipped person in the 95th percentile--the seats employ energy attenuators to absorb collision forces. In a crash, sets of offset metal rollers ride down the length of two straight metal bars behind the seat, dissipating crash energy before it reaches the occupant. Strapped in with a five-point harness, occupants are protected from combined crash forces up to 30Gs. Expected to first enter the fleet in the upgraded UH-1 helicopter (see Mar-Apr 01, p. 7), the future may also find the crashworthy crash·wor·thy adj. Capable of withstanding the effects of a crash: crashworthy cars; crashworthy seats. crash seats in other transport helicopters, such as the H-46 Sea Knight and the H-3 Sea King. |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion