NASA has came up with a rather simple and cagy idea that may deliver a lot of lives : An expandable Kevlar honeycomb cushion that would take in the impact military unit in an aircraft crash . NASA ’s Karen Jackson is hopeful about it :
I ’d wish to guess the research we ’re doing is pop off to terminate up in airframes and will potentially pull through lives . We crash - essay the eggbeater by suspending it about 35 feet ( 10.7 m ) into the breeze using cables . Then , as it swung to the ground , we used pyrotechnics to remove the cable just before the helicopter hit so that it react like it would in a real stroke .
The run — which imitate the consideration of a “ relatively severe helicopter crash”—appeared to be a success , although NASA is still going through the information hoard by the 160 sensor on board , and the four clangour mental testing dummies with torsos especially design to simulate the behavior of interior organ .
create by locomotive engineer Sotiris Kellas at NASA ’s Langley Research Center in Hampton , Viginia , the kevlar honeycomb is not for good deployed : It ’s always plane until it inflate in the slip of emergency , much like an airbag but using a flexible flexible joint instead of inflate . [ NASAviaPopSci ]
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