Airplane safety system/Plane with a device to save passengers ...
Airplane safety system/Plane with a device to save passengers ...
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Hi everybody,
I've recently received a link which shows a patented system for safety of aircraft passengers. Is this applicable or just a flash from a non-expert person's mind?[highlight ][/highlight]
I've recently received a link which shows a patented system for safety of aircraft passengers. Is this applicable or just a flash from a non-expert person's mind?[highlight ][/highlight]





RE: Airplane safety system/Plane with a device to save passengers ...
double the weight
probability that system won't work when needed: high
probability that system will cause other problems when not needed: moderate
Just because someone patents something, doesn't mean it's feasible or practical or even realizable.
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RE: Airplane safety system/Plane with a device to save passengers ...
Complexity results in more issues, higher costs, and higher weight. All electrical and environmental cables would need mechanisms to detach from the aircraft. Atmospheric pressure would need to be maintained in the capsule after separation. More mechanisms, more systems, more weight. more possibilities of failure and dead passengers even if the capsule successfully ejected.
Weight affects fuel costs. Complexity affects acquisition cost, training costs, maintenance costs. All of these are big issues for commercial carriers who shave pennies for savings to remain (hopefully) profitable.
Better to look at the simpler safety system that are available - ballistic parachutes for the whole aircraft. I'm not aware of any large aircraft that are equipped with these, but many small private planes and ultra-light aircraft are, and they have saved lives already. Even when the plane was OK but the pilot was just disoriented and unable to fly the aircraft in the weather conditions these have saved lives.
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RE: Airplane safety system/Plane with a device to save passengers ...
That's it exactly.
Modern commercial aircraft are already incredibly safe to fly on. In fact, you are probably safer traveling on a modern commercial aircraft than you are using any other form of transportation. Adding all of the additional complexity involved with that system would only reduce reliability.
RE: Airplane safety system/Plane with a device to save passengers ...
another day in paradise, or is paradise one day closer ?
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RE: Airplane safety system/Plane with a device to save passengers ...
Again, all you need to do is visit any air & space museum to see examples of flyable prototypes that never make it into production, either because of economics or mission fit. (And you'd even see some aircraft that still went into commercial use, despite their design shortcomings ... great example: the Concord).
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice however, experience suggests that in practice, there is!
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RE: Airplane safety system/Plane with a device to save passengers ...
What about the pilots though in this frivolity.
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RE: Airplane safety system/Plane with a device to save passengers ...
B.E.
You are judged not by what you know, but by what you can do.
RE: Airplane safety system/Plane with a device to save passengers ...
OK, I'm thinking the Thunderbirds got there first though.
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Oops, no there isn't. Fairchild got there first with the XC-120. Link
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RE: Airplane safety system/Plane with a device to save passengers ...
XC 120 however it would not appear to invalidate Airbuses patent.
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RE: Airplane safety system/Plane with a device to save passengers ...
However, if comics (and other media) constitute prior art, that Gerry Anderson guy must be a real problem for Airbus' IP managers. What about the Eagles on Moonbase Alpha? Link
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It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
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Timelord
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