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Of Appolonia antibomb for airplane wins a prize for its textile container
It protect aircrafts and passengers from explosions caused from eventual devices hidden inside baggages
June 12, 2012
Of Appolonia, the society of engineering advising that they give last December has entered to take part of the group of RINA, has adjudicated the National Prize for the Innovation 2012 in the category "Tourism" with the project "Fly-Bag bombproof container". Draft of a container textile antibomb of new generation dedicated to the transport sure of baggages in the hold of the airliners and able protect the aircrafts and the passengers from explosions caused from eventual devices hidden inside baggages.
More in the specific one, the structure of "Fly-Bag" consists in a bag of great dimensions, able to contain until about 50 suitcases, realized in textile materials and composites that return it resistant to high dynamic loads and thermal generated from an explosion, but at the same time extremely adaptable to the requirements of the aerial transport. The structure is also of contained weight, parameter of crucial importance for applications in aeronautical field.
Of Appolonia it has explained that the revolutionary container "Fly-Bag", with the exception of the prototypes of the years ‘90 more rigid and heavy which thought in order to resist to the shock wave generated from the explosion without to become deformed, is characterized by a flexible and light structure, able to absorb the explosion by means of a mechanism of deformation controlled of the multilayer ones to textile base of which it is constituted. Every layer of the structure acquits a specific function: control of fragments, absorption of the shock wave generated from the explosion, let alone resistance to the fire.
"The field of the aerial transport - it has found Donato Zangani, in charge of the Research & development of Of Appolonia and coordinator of the project "Fly Bag" - is to risk of attacks terrorist and, in spite of recently, in particular after the tragedy of September 11 2001, is adopted tightening measures of prevention a lot, permane the possibility that mean-small amounts of explosives can escape to the introduced controls and being in the holds of the airplane. With "Fly-Bag", that she raises the level of protection of the airplane when is already in flight, we want to contribute in meaningful way to return aeronautical the field still surer".
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Of Appolonia, the society of engineering advising that they give last December has entered to take part of the group of RINA, has adjudicated the National Prize for the Innovation 2012 in the category "Tourism" with the project "Fly-Bag bombproof container". Draft of a container textile antibomb of new generation dedicated to the transport sure of baggages in the hold of the airliners and able protect the aircrafts and the passengers from explosions caused from eventual devices hidden inside baggages.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
