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Passive Safety Features Implementation into Recovery Systems for General Aviation Airplanes
Hájek, Tomáš ; Slavík,, Svatomír (referee) ; Návrat, Tomáš (referee) ; Jebáček, Ivo (advisor)
The thesis is developed in the context of the continuous improvement of safety in personal aviation. The work focuses mainly on small aircrafts, collectively referred to as General Aviation. This thesis aims to evaluate the feasibility of implementing a passive safety feature in the form of an under-fuselage airbag in the rescue systems of small aircraft. The implementation of such a feature will help to reduce the loads transferred to the crew during a rescue parachute landing and effectively reduce the minimum altitude of the ballistic rescue system. This is a new state-of-the-art solution that is unparalleled in its category. The thesis presents a theoretical framework for solving the problem of shock absorption by airbags in the form of a mathematical model. Subsequently, the thesis presents the validation of the mathematical model based on a set of experimental data obtained for this purpose. The theoretical and practical part of the thesis then deals with the elements that influence the airbag performance, namely actively controlled air vent. The last part of the thesis performs a practical design of the implementation of the under-fuselage airbag in the rescue system of a given aircraft in terms of size, location, activation and filling of the airbag. The proposed system is capable of attenuating the impact of the aircraft from a speed of 15 ms-1, thus reducing the application altitude by 10 %. The weight of the newly designed system is equal to 5 % of the total take-off weight. The contribution of the work lies in the combination of two fields of safety that have not been addressed in this category so far, with the distinct result of improving the safety of small aircraft equipped with a ballistic rescue system.
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