Survival kit air deployable apparatus and method

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B - Operations, Transporting

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244/104, 114/60.

B63C 9/00 (2006.01) B64D 1/02 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 1221881

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE An apparatus and method for airplane deployment over water of survival kit apparatus is provided. A pair of deflated, inflatable rafts are contained in a rigid container shell having a removable tail cone. A stabilizer drogue may be used to longitudinally stabilize the container prior to tail cone release and assist with the tail cone removal after release. The tail cone is mechanically released and removed from the container shell at a predetermined time after deployment from an aircraft, thereby permitting the container shell contents to be removed. The life rafts are contained in the container shell so that one life raft having associated with it aerodynamic braking means is released after the tail cone has been removed, with the container and second life raft continuing their trajectory downwards. The rope joining the two life rafts is continuously paid out as the first life raft falls to the water and the container with the second life raft therein continues its trajectory. The second life raft is removed from the container shell mechanically after the container shell contacts the surface of the water. The apparatus and method of the invention results in the pair of inflated rope-joined life rafts being deployed on the water surface at spaced locations.

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