Initial Airworthiness by Guy Gratton

Initial Airworthiness by Guy Gratton

Author:Guy Gratton
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham


10.2.2 Emergency Egress from the Aircraft in the Air

There are aircraft for which a means of airborne abandonment is essential to the role. This mostly includes aeroplanes that are designed for some form of aerobatic manoeuvering—for example combat aircraft and light aeroplanes used for display aerobatics; however the use of some form of escape system is not constrained to those: most early flight test prototypes will use something of this nature, regardless of long term intentions, and most gliders as the nature of glider operations (many aircraft chasing the same thermal in a small area) causes enhanced risks of airborne collision. Airborne abandonment can be broken into three categories:Manual abandonment (for example a jettisonable canopy and personal parachute)



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