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Aug 27^th, 2011 at 11:07am

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What is it and what aircraft is it fitted to?? I have cropped out the airline logo, but the shade of grey may help Lips Sealed

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Reply #1 - Aug 27^th, 2011 at 11:30am

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It's a seat belt tummy warmer on Boudreaux and Bubba's Creole Airways. Roll Eyes

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #2 - Aug 27^th, 2011 at 1:34pm

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I have no idea what the plane is.......I'll guess that the "it" is a seat-belt airbag?

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Up, up the long, delerious, burning blue I've topped the wind swept heights with easy grace where never Lark, nor even Eagle flew. While with silent lifting of mind I've trod the high untrespassed sanctity of space, put out my hand and touched the face of god"

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Reply #3 - Aug 27^th, 2011 at 1:53pm

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CHUCK79 wrote on Aug 27^th, 2011 at 1:34pm:

I have no idea what the plane is.......I'll guess that the "it" is a seat-belt airbag?

Yes, you are quite right, it is a passenger seat belt airbag. Up until today I had never seen one, let alone knew about them. I noticed it when doing a pre-flight for a customer aircraft. This one is fitted to a CRJ700 on the first row of the right hand side. It is due to the bulkhead being rather close by. Armed by closing it and set of by the G of your hips moving forward. The captain was not to sure what would set it off, a heavy landing, a very heavy landing or a crash landing. Though he did wonder on how useful it would be if the aircraft flew into a hillside at 400kts Undecided

We did come to the conclusion that if that was to happen, one plus point, your coffin could be viewed open from the neck up Lips Sealed

It was very light, though as you can see, not so compact, but how long before they are installed in the back side of all the head rests as a standard fit........... Huh

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Reply #4 - Aug 27^th, 2011 at 4:13pm

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expat wrote on Aug 27^th, 2011 at 1:53pm:

Armed by closing it and set of by the G of your hips moving forward.

Matt

Guess it's a good thing they did not come out before Elvis passed away. Roll Eyes

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #5 - Aug 27^th, 2011 at 4:56pm

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patchz wrote on Aug 27^th, 2011 at 4:13pm:

expat wrote on Aug 27^th, 2011 at 1:53pm:

Armed by closing it and set of by the G of your hips moving forward.

Matt

Guess it's a good thing they did not come out before Elvis passed away. Roll Eyes

Or Michael Jackson Cheesy

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Reply #6 - Aug 27^th, 2011 at 9:11pm

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I've seen them on GA aircraft before, such as the Cirrus, but never on an airline aircraft. I'll have to keep that in the memory bank when training my guys. At least airplane seat bags are far less hazardous than car airbags. Car airbags deploy by an explosive charge. Aircraft are usually just filled by a compressed charge, such as CO2.

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Reply #7 - Aug 28^th, 2011 at 5:04am

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DaveSims wrote on Aug 27^th, 2011 at 9:11pm:

I've seen them on GA aircraft before, such as the Cirrus, but never on an airline aircraft. I'll have to keep that in the memory bank when training my guys. At least airplane seat bags are far less hazardous than car airbags. Car airbags deploy by an explosive charge. Aircraft are usually just filled by a compressed charge, such as CO2.

True. The problems arise due to the difference in crash speed. Roll Eyes

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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