METHOD OF EMERGENCY EVACUATION FROM HELICOPTER Russian patent published in 2003 - IPC

FIELD: aviation; passenger and flying vehicle rescue equipment; designing promising helicopters at enhanced safety for passengers. SUBSTANCE: helicopter has rescue capsule located in fuselage and made in form of passenger cabin. Elongated shaped charges are located in fuselage along its case and over circumference between nose part of pilot cabin, central part of self-contained capsule and tail section, as well as at point of attachment of rotor to fuselage . In case of evacuation, doorways of rescue capsule are closed and explosion cutting of fuselage is performed by means of shaped charges for separation of capsule from rotor, nose section, tail section and fuselage skin and parachute is deployed. EFFECT: extended field of application. 4 dwg