Showing posts with label helicopter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label helicopter. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Helicopter Safety Improvements Within Reality
Helicopters in this day and age, is taken to be a technology that is not intended to have crashes and accidents at levels of regularity. The frequency of reported helicopter crashes in recent months does not befit what we are accustomed to having as the conception of helicopters.
One out of three cars crashing every 3 minutes in ordinary weather, would be an absurdity. If every time a spaceship was sent to outerspace, there was a mishap, it would be a conflict of interest in establishing the technology.
It is known that building a helicopter can be expansive. Safety features sacrificed for cost of construction minimization, is up for question. How much is really being saved, when lives are being lost at the rate they have been lately? Markedly of reference is the recent crash this week in an area about 150 miles west of Denver, Colorado.
Notions of sequences of causes and events, as it stands now, does not have to be, in terms of improvements in helicopter safety that can be made for the better.
There are a few basic technologies that are already in existence, that if applied to helicopters, might have an effect to increase the safety of passengers of helicopters and the air vehicle itself.
One unfortunate notion that might commonly be held currently, is that if and when a helicopter crashes, the results are disastrous; what was up in the sky came down, and the force of the crash caused bodily damage, almost always assumed to be fatal, with rare exceptions of a miracle. This picture in held in mind, does not have to be, and the sequence of events of flight crash and fatality, does not have to be reality.
Looking at a photo of the crash that occurred outside Denver on Monday, the helicopter was still in many ways intact.
Visiting, what if, certain technologies had existed, now presented is a summary of 3 technologies already in use, toward study for application to helicopters:
1- Thermal protection pods
These are the same pods that are used by firemen that contend with high temperature forest and wildfires. When it looks like the fire has become overwhelming, they can inflate the emergency pods, protecting them from thermal injuries.
2- Air bags
Many cars now have air bags. The same or similar concept applied to helicopters, a larger airbag, or sets of them, that accomplish the safety objective, placed in helicopters, might reduce injury caused by sudden impact. With something that resembles a waterbed, in situations where helicopters crash resulting in impact and jolting effects of the body, if the passengers were cushioned, there could possibly be a decrease in the rate of injury.
3- Sprinkler systems
Trinkling water like sprinkler systems in old office buildings, might not be sufficient in a helicopter fire. The idea of having a system that forcefully smothers flames whether water or some other mechanism, that is activated when needed, could help minimize or prevent thermal injuries.
Combinations of these, and further development of a vast set of technologies, is as innate in importance as the vehicle themselves.
Monday, June 11, 2012
Wildfires Raging on June 11, 2012. Year-round 'Wildfire Season', then Season within the Season
June 12, 2012: The closer number of large wildfires is 23.
Apparently there are about 18 wildfires There are about 23 wildfires currently raging in different part of the United States.
Wildfires means large fires covering square miles [or acres] at a time.
Big ones are:
According to ABC News [June 11, 2012], six states have been impacted heavily by wildfires, the 6 states suffering from fires that seem to head the list in the order [refer http://abcnews.go.com/US/wildfires...] they have it, are:
Season within the season explained:
This means, that some wildfires, could rage in some areas year round, which could take away from the notion of a wildfire season occurring only in a part of the year. Because wildfires are known for usually a higher rate of incidence per unit time, at certain times of the year, there is still wildfire season. What is brought to the forefront with the year-round season concept, is not to wait until the what used to be historically seasonal cycle, for readiness to prevent and suppress wildfires. Many things have happened over the course of time impacting a wildfire season, such as climatic changes, warming of geographic regions for different spans of time, and so on.
In geographical order, the 6 states, are in the southeastern portion of the U.S., Georgia; moving westward, Texas, in the south, which is toward the center of the country; moving northward, also near the center, is Colorado; toward the west, but not all the way west of the continental states, and in the south are NM, and Arizona, leaving Colorado is the northern most state effected by wildfires of the magnitude in this discussion; the possible exception, are fires in the northern part of California.
blog in progress
Wildfires means large fires covering square miles [or acres] at a time.
Big ones are:
- Larimer, Colorado [northernmost part of Colorado]. The High Park Fire.
- New, Mexico [southernmost part of the state], in/around/near mountain region of Ruidoso, and Sierra Blanca mountain range
A more accurate regional and specific wildfire location and distribution map is directly below:
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- Arizona
- Texas
- California
- New Mexico
- Colorado
- Georgia
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Season within the season explained:
This means, that some wildfires, could rage in some areas year round, which could take away from the notion of a wildfire season occurring only in a part of the year. Because wildfires are known for usually a higher rate of incidence per unit time, at certain times of the year, there is still wildfire season. What is brought to the forefront with the year-round season concept, is not to wait until the what used to be historically seasonal cycle, for readiness to prevent and suppress wildfires. Many things have happened over the course of time impacting a wildfire season, such as climatic changes, warming of geographic regions for different spans of time, and so on.
In geographical order, the 6 states, are in the southeastern portion of the U.S., Georgia; moving westward, Texas, in the south, which is toward the center of the country; moving northward, also near the center, is Colorado; toward the west, but not all the way west of the continental states, and in the south are NM, and Arizona, leaving Colorado is the northern most state effected by wildfires of the magnitude in this discussion; the possible exception, are fires in the northern part of California.
blog in progress
COLORADO WILDFIRE: Frustration & Ugliness: A Fire that Awoke Rip Van Winkle. The Fire is in Progress at the Moment of Writing this Blog
The fire has been named the High Park Fire.
Flames were seen racing uphill, at angles in the direction of the slant of the mountains, at more of an acute angle than the mountains themselves.
Where: Larimer County, Colorado {primarily}
Firefighters need help out there, as in more support, as of earlier this afternoon.
After 6pm EST, some emergency response management say they have all they need.
NOW, just like a fresh fire started, CAUTION, just as easily, another COULD start, adjacent, and exacerbate the current situation; so, in some sense, there can NEVER BE ENOUGH READINESS.
Opinion [:] Once the fire it completely out, then, it can be unanimously, all that they need to work against the fire is in place. Other angles on containing and CONTROLLING the situation, in terms of contribution of teamwork strategies building, probably could not hurt.
"We can get all the resources we want and need," he [the incident commander] said.
But Colorado's House congressional delegation demanded that the U.S. Forest Service deploy more resources to the fire, which was zero percent contained and forced hundreds of people to abandon their homes.
'New Mexico, Colorado fires burn out of control' [published about 6pmEST/June 11, 2012/AP]
Helicopters with water have arrived from Canada to help.
1 person is 'missing' thus far. [As of June 12, 2012, the missing person has been identified as a 62 year old woman, now deceased]
Door-to-door evacuations were/ are[?] being performed.
Stories have it the fire started Saturday morning {2 days ago}.
The description of the flames on video: bright orange flames, just like an orange colored crayon. Huge white colored smoke clouds have formed, some looked like just the top part of a mushroom. On top of some of the white clouds are dark-gray-colored clouds.
The fire DOES NOT seem to be CONTAINED as of yet. 12:45 EST [June 11].
20,000 acres were burnt in 48 hours.
Elements of 'whisping', winds, helping, the flames. The kind of fire that could have awakened Rip Van Winkle.
What is a successful strategy for containing and putting the fire out?
The last footage seen, was the Colorado fire burning right now, is the kind of scene, fire loves, making due with the situation. The situation is, it is in mountainous area of Colorado, which is more rural than a densely populated city.
Flames were seen racing uphill, at angles in the direction of the slant of the mountains, at more of an acute angle than the mountains themselves.
Where: Larimer County, Colorado {primarily}
- Boulder County, Colorado {bordering and adjacent south of Larimer, of concern}
- Jefferson County, Colorado {bordering and adjacent south of Boulder County, in stories, and of concern}
- Broomfield, County, Colorado {bordering and adjacent southeast tip of Boulder County, of concern}
- more specifics: east of Walden, west of Fort Collins
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| click on maps to enlarge |
Firefighters need help out there, as in more support, as of earlier this afternoon.
After 6pm EST, some emergency response management say they have all they need.
NOW, just like a fresh fire started, CAUTION, just as easily, another COULD start, adjacent, and exacerbate the current situation; so, in some sense, there can NEVER BE ENOUGH READINESS.
Opinion [:] Once the fire it completely out, then, it can be unanimously, all that they need to work against the fire is in place. Other angles on containing and CONTROLLING the situation, in terms of contribution of teamwork strategies building, probably could not hurt.
"We can get all the resources we want and need," he [the incident commander] said.
But Colorado's House congressional delegation demanded that the U.S. Forest Service deploy more resources to the fire, which was zero percent contained and forced hundreds of people to abandon their homes.
'New Mexico, Colorado fires burn out of control' [published about 6pmEST/June 11, 2012/AP]
Helicopters with water have arrived from Canada to help.
1 person is 'missing' thus far. [As of June 12, 2012, the missing person has been identified as a 62 year old woman, now deceased]
Door-to-door evacuations were/ are[?] being performed.
Stories have it the fire started Saturday morning {2 days ago}.
The description of the flames on video: bright orange flames, just like an orange colored crayon. Huge white colored smoke clouds have formed, some looked like just the top part of a mushroom. On top of some of the white clouds are dark-gray-colored clouds.
The fire DOES NOT seem to be CONTAINED as of yet. 12:45 EST [June 11].
20,000 acres were burnt in 48 hours.
Elements of 'whisping', winds, helping, the flames. The kind of fire that could have awakened Rip Van Winkle.
What is a successful strategy for containing and putting the fire out?
The last footage seen, was the Colorado fire burning right now, is the kind of scene, fire loves, making due with the situation. The situation is, it is in mountainous area of Colorado, which is more rural than a densely populated city.
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