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NASA Langley studying chopper crashes
Updated: Monday, 15 Mar 2010, 6:45 PM EDT
Published : Monday, 15 Mar 2010, 8:47 AM EDT
HAMPTON, Va. (AP) - Researchers at the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton are studying ways to reduce injuries sustained in helicopter crashes.
Engineers are using data from test crashes done at the facility to see how well a honeycomb-like, Kevlar cushion on a helicopter's undercarriage could be used to absorb most of the impact.
The tests, designed to simulate a severe but survivable crash, drop a helicopter 35 feet onto a concrete pad. Instruments inside measure 160 channels of data and test dummies.
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