NASA Langley Researches Crash Test Helicopter
Anybody who says NASA researchers don't know how to have a smashing good time has not met the team at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., where engineers crash tested a former Marine helicopter at the historic Landing and Impact Research facility. The fuselage is painted in black polka dots as part of a high speed photographic technique.
First the engineers installed instrumented crash test dummies and un-instrumented manikins. They then tested seatbelts and other technologies during a crash test in which the helicopter will be dropped from a height of about 30 feet and hit the ground at about 30 miles an hour.
Credit: NASA/Sandra Gibbs
Image Number: LRC-2013-00575
Date: August 28, 2013
NASA Langley Researches Crash Test Helicopter
Anybody who says NASA researchers don't know how to have a smashing good time has not met the team at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., where engineers crash tested a former Marine helicopter at the historic Landing and Impact Research facility. The fuselage is painted in black polka dots as part of a high speed photographic technique.
First the engineers installed instrumented crash test dummies and un-instrumented manikins. They then tested seatbelts and other technologies during a crash test in which the helicopter will be dropped from a height of about 30 feet and hit the ground at about 30 miles an hour.
Credit: NASA/Sandra Gibbs
Image Number: LRC-2013-00575
Date: August 28, 2013