Helicopter Drop Tests
Crashing test dummies into walls must not be enough fun for some people, so the engineers at NASA’s Langley Research Center have upped the ante. These stoic mannequins were strapped inside an MD-500 helicopter last week and dropped from a height of 35 feet to test whether a honeycomb cushion shock …
Crashing test dummies into walls must not be enough fun for some people, so the engineers at NASA's Langley Research Center have upped the ante. These stoic mannequins were strapped inside an MD-500 helicopter last week and dropped from a height of 35 feet to test whether a honeycomb cushion shock absorber can improve helicopter crash survivability. The NASA video shows what happened: