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Small Airplane Vertical Impact Test Program
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The crash impact characteristics of commuter category airplanes has recently been established using empirical procedures based on full scale aircraft impact test data for a range of aircraft sizes[1]. To compliment that empirical approach the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) initiated a full scale commuter category airplane vertical impact test program. Those airplane vertical impact tests were structured to evaluate the airframe's capability to maintain its structural integrity and provide a protective shell for its occupants, to quantify the acceleration impact response characteristics of the airframe, and to evaluate the means necessary to provide occupant pelvic/lumbar column load injury protection up to the limits of survivable impact conditions. This paper presents the results of the FAA's full scale commuter category airplane vertical impact tests which indicate that occupant impact protection can be provided for the levels of impact conditions evaluated in the test program.
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Soltis, S. and McGuire, R., "Small Airplane Vertical Impact Test Program," SAE Technical Paper 951162, 1995, https://doi.org/10.4271/951162.Also In
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