Certification of a Corporate Shuttle Aircraft Interior to Dynamic Occupant Protection Requirements: A Completion Center's Experience

971470

05/01/1997

Event
General, Corporate & Regional Aviation Meeting & Exposition
Authors Abstract
Content
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 beneficial improvements to the seating 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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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/971470
Pages
14
Citation
Knott, T., "Certification of a Corporate Shuttle Aircraft Interior to Dynamic Occupant Protection Requirements: A Completion Center's Experience," SAE Technical Paper 971470, 1997, https://doi.org/10.4271/971470.
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Published
May 1, 1997
Product Code
971470
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English