Evacuation Systems History
This Goodrich evacuation slide was designed for an aircraft that will most likely never fly.
What is MRJ?
This engineering device is used to travel through time in "Back to the Future".
What is a Delorean time machine?
This type of aircraft takes off and lands vertically, often using electric propulsion, and is envisioned for urban air mobility.
What are eVTOLs?
This test simulates aircraft low-visibility evacuation.
What is Dark of Night?
This now defunct airline was once a major US carrier known for its international routes and distinctive "Pan Am" logo.
What was Pan American World Airways?
The charged cylinder for this evacuation system is known as the "cherry bomb".
What is the 747 Crew Upper Deck?
This model of aircraft was used by Luke to "bullseye Womp Rats" in Star Wars.
What is the T-16 Skyhopper?
This technology enhances experiences by allowing consumers to visualize products in real-world settings.
What is Augmented Reality (AR)?
This test simulates aircraft crashed door positions.
What is adverse attitude?
This barrier was broken in 1947 by Chuck Yeager in the Bell X-1.
What is the sound barrier?
Evacuation slides from these aircraft deploy from the tailcone.
What is an MD-80 and a DC-9?
This type of weapons technology is used by a phaser in Star Trek.
What are particle-beam weapons?
This is an emergent field of cutting-edge computer science leveraging advancements in physics used to solve problems beyond the ability of even the most powerful classical computers.
What is quantum computing?
This is the only evacuation system testing known to make people vomit.
What are sea trials?
This American fighter aircraft was nicknamed the "Flying Fortress" and played a crucial role in strategic bombing campaigns over Europe.
What was the Boeing B-17
These restraints are used on classic evacuation systems such as the DC-10 and consist of two prongs and a ball.
What is a spring fork restraint?
This fictional device first coined by Ursula Le Guin is capable of faster than light communication and can instantaneously transmit and receive messages across the galaxy.
What is an ansible?
The most advanced gene-editing technology to date, which works by harnessing the natural mechanisms of the immune systems of bacterium cells of invading viruses, which is then able to "cut out" infected DNA strands.
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)
This equipment is used to simulate inertial loads.
What is a centrifuge?
This Soviet cosmonaut was the first human to travel to outer space.
Who was Yuri Gagarin?
This company was purchased by BF Goodrich in 1972 and included a slide manufacturing facility in West Virginia.
What is Rubber Fabricators Inc.?
This invention was used by Dr. Horrible in his Sing Along Blog to take over the world.
What is a freeze ray?
What are Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS)?
This test validates composite bending stress.
What is flexural bending?
or What is modulus of rupture?
or What is bend strength?
or What is transverse rupture strength?
This type of engine, commonly used in jet aircraft, uses a fan to draw air in and bypasses some of it around the core engine for increased efficiency.
What is a turbofan engine?