Blackhawks Have it and it records crash data!
PROJECT: CABS ( Cockpit Air Bags System).
Project Description: The CABS system consists of four Airbags mounted in the cockpit of a helicopter. In the event of a crash, an electronic module called the ECSU (Electronic Crash Sensor Unit) will sense the crash and set off the airbags to protect the occupants while recording the accelerations produced for later analysis of the crash conditions.
PROJECT: CABS ( Cockpit Air Bags System).
Project Description: The CABS system consists of four Airbags mounted in the cockpit of a helicopter. In the event of a crash, an electronic module called the ECSU (Electronic Crash Sensor Unit) will sense the crash and set off the airbags to protect the occupants while recording the accelerations produced for later analysis of the crash conditions.
Project Description: The CABS system consists of four Airbags mounted in the cockpit of a helicopter. In the event of a crash, an electronic module called the ECSU (Electronic Crash Sensor Unit) will sense the crash and set off the airbags to protect the occupants while recording the accelerations produced for later analysis of the crash condition.
The system has won two national awards and more important, functioned properly in two crashes of BlackHawk helicopters, thus saving the lives of the occupants. To this day the CABS system is the only airbag deployment system in production for helicopters.
Simula, November 18, 1999 - FORT RUCKER, Ala. - The U.S. Army Aviation Applied Technology Directorate (AATD) has successfully achieved a major milestone by demonstrating a newly developed Cockpit Air Bag System (CABS) during Black Hawk helicopter flight tests.
The CABS, developed by Simula, Inc. of Phoenix, AZ represents the latest advance in aviation safety technology – a supplemental restraint system to prevent fatal and serious injuries to aircrew members during survivable aircraft crashes.
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If equipped with CABS, then Height can be retrieved. https://www.helis.com/database/news/air-bag-hawk/