Crew Escape Technologies initial centrifuge tests

Author

Brien, Lt Patrick M O ; Frazier, John W. ; Popper, Maj Stephen E ; Bolia, MSgt Stephen D ; Goodyear, Charles D. ; Cooper, Lt Karen E H ; Keele, Lt Ray L

Author_Institution

Harry G. Armstrong Aerosp. Med. Res. Lab., Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, USA

fYear

1989

fDate

22-26 May 1989

Firstpage

798

Abstract

The Crew Escape Technologies (CREST) program is an effort to expand the envelope of safe escape from aircraft in an open ejection seat system. The program provides for the development of a prototype ejection seat system to be tested on the high-speed sled facility at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, in late 1989. These tests for the CREST program were performed on the dynamic environment simulator, a three-axis man-rated centrifuge. The test objective was to evaluate three CREST candidate harnesses against the standard PCU-15/P harness. Initial test results are presented

Keywords

aerospace simulation; aerospace test facilities; aircraft; centrifuges; protection; safety systems; CREST program; Crew Escape Technologies; Holloman AFB; New Mexico; PCU-15/P harness; aerospace simulation; aerospace test facilities; aircraft; centrifuge tests; dynamic environment simulator; high-speed sled facility; open ejection seat system; prototype; safe escape; three-axis man-rated centrifuge; Aerodynamics; Aerospace safety; Aerospace testing; Airplanes; Hip; Laboratories; Military aircraft; Performance evaluation; Prototypes; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace and Electronics Conference, 1989. NAECON 1989., Proceedings of the IEEE 1989 National

Conference_Location

Dayton, OH

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NAECON.1989.40304

Filename

40304