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July 01, 2013: In what could become one of the largest facilities in the world to study the effect of bird-strikes on aircraft, the National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) has commissioned a crash sled as part of an integrated impact and crash worthiness research facility. According to NAL, the ICRF has been developed as a high technology facility that will carry out research in this vital area of flight safety and occupant safety, applicable to both aerospace and automotive customers.
The facility will have one of the largest bird strike airguns in the world, testing for runway debris, hail stones and other foreign object damage (FOD). "Drop towers have been developed and can be used to test for aircraft crashworthiness. Occupant safety studies can be carried out using crash dummies to understand injuries to humans. The facility is equipped with high speed imaging, crash recorders and material testing infrastructure. The use of simple airbags and other low cost safety solutions are being studied at the facility," says Dr Satish Chandra, Head, Structural Technologies Division at NAL.