NASA and FAA Put Dummies and Baggage to the Test for Airplane Safety

Ten crash test dummies buckled into seats in a cut-out section of a regional jet fuselage will soon help develop new crashworthiness guidelines for future airplane designs.

The dummies were part of a vertical drop test from a height of 14 feet (4.27 meters), impacting at speeds of 30 feet per second (9.14 meters per second), at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The test was a joint NASA/Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) research project.

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