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Operations => Emergency Services & Operations => Topic started by: RiverAux on March 08, 2009, 12:35:37 AM

Title: Crash simulations
Post by: RiverAux on March 08, 2009, 12:35:37 AM
How about some photos of your best simulated airplane wreckage used during SAREXs? 
Title: Re: Crash simulations
Post by: RiverAux on March 23, 2009, 11:01:25 PM
Really, nothing?    ???
Title: Re: Crash simulations
Post by: bosshawk on March 24, 2009, 04:57:21 PM
One very inexpensive, but accurate, depiction of a crashed airplane is to take your weeks trash out and throw it on the ground.  Really approximates what I have seen at most crash sites.  Of course, your local law enforcement folks might take exception to the practice.
Title: Re: Crash simulations
Post by: EMT-83 on March 30, 2009, 12:33:23 AM
Don't have any photos, but have used rigid styrofoam insulation for crash simulations. It's lightweight and easy for one person to deploy. You can arrange the pieces to simulate wings and debris, and it looks pretty good from above.
Title: Re: Crash simulations
Post by: Tubacap on March 30, 2009, 09:30:09 PM
That is a very timely piece of advice!  I was just about to get rid of some old Styrofoam panels, now I will instead make an airplane with them!
Title: Re: Crash simulations
Post by: N Harmon on March 30, 2009, 10:13:07 PM
Quote from: EMT-83 on March 30, 2009, 12:33:23 AM
Don't have any photos, but have used rigid styrofoam insulation for crash simulations. It's lightweight and easy for one person to deploy. You can arrange the pieces to simulate wings and debris, and it looks pretty good from above.

How does it stand up to the outdoors? Will water ruin it?
Title: Re: Crash simulations
Post by: EMT-83 on March 30, 2009, 11:05:18 PM
Quote from: N Harmon on March 30, 2009, 10:13:07 PM
How does it stand up to the outdoors? Will water ruin it?
Don't know, we pick it up after the SAREX and put it in storage.
Title: Re: Crash simulations
Post by: a2capt on March 31, 2009, 06:00:36 AM
Here's one - sort of .. ;-) If I were to have "chased" it, it would be like a dog chasing it's tail ..
Title: Re: Crash simulations
Post by: a2capt on March 31, 2009, 06:03:01 AM
This is looking down on a "182", that fits in a large tube.

It's plastic tarp like material cut in three pieces, that form a 1:1 scale C-182.
Title: Re: Crash simulations
Post by: a2capt on March 31, 2009, 06:05:58 AM
..and the same as above, it's "twin" - at another location during the same SAREX


Title: Re: Crash simulations
Post by: CadetProgramGuy on March 31, 2009, 07:54:55 AM
Don't have an aerial photo that I can find, but this is the IAWG Crashed airplane....

It is an old airframe on a trailer with removable wings and tail.