An emergency pod configured for use with a rotary wing aircraft is provided including a rigid, generally hollow shell. An inflatable raft is arranged within an interior portion of the hollow shell. The life raft is coupled to an inflation mechanism. A first activation device and a second activation device are operably coupled to the inflation mechanism, the second activation device being disposed within the shell and fastened to a movable portion of the shell, wherein the first activation device and the second activation device operable independently of one another. Inflation of the inflatable raft is initiated when a force is applied to one of the first activation device and the second activation device.
Helicopter external life raft pod
2016-03-15
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
LIFE RAFT MANUFACTURING MOLD, LIFE RAFT MANUFACTURING METHOD, AND LIFE RAFT
European Patent Office | 2018
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