- Author
-
Shelbourn, E. H.
- Title
- Improved Smoke Generator for Aircraft Testing.
- Coporate
- McDonnell Douglas Corp., Long Beach, CA
- Book or Conf
- Society of Flight Test Engineers. Annual Symposium, 15th. August 12-16, 1984,
St. Louis, MO,
14/1-4 p.,
1984
- Keywords
-
smoke generators
|
aircraft safety
|
simulation
|
smoke detectors
|
heaters
- Identifiers
- generators; performance tests
- Abstract
- An improved smoke generator is described for on-aircraft testing of smoke detection systems and smoke clearning and peetration rates. A heater is added to an existing smoke generator in order to produce smoke that more realistically simulates real fire conditions. Tests demonstrated significantly earlier detection than with the unmodified generator.