Certification of a Corporate Shuttle Aircraft Interior to Dynamic Occupant Protection Requirements: a Completion CenterS Experience

Document Number: 971470

Date Published: May 1997

Author(s):
Thomas A Knott - Kal Aero

Abstract:
In support of a Dornier 328 aircraft completion with a corporate shuttle interior, a test program to show compliance with the occupant injury criteria was undertaken. Three seating configurations were developed utilizing two occupant protection technologies. Component-level testing was successfully used to predict the performance of one occupant protection system.

Dynamic testing for injury purposes also indicated benefical improvements to the sealing system, including a change of the restraint system to a more reliable design.

"Lessons learned" from the dynamic testing experience are also reviewed. A novel method of using simple equipment to develop head trajectory information from filmed data was devised and is explained.

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See other papers presented at General, Corporate & Regional Aviation Meeting & Exposition, April 1997, Wichita, KS, USA, Session: Impact Dynamics

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