Project Rebirth- external aircraft airbag system

[Chock Full o Nuts]

Gonna need to see this in action. In a testing scenario of course.

project rebirth proposes AI airplane crash survival system with inflating external airbags

www.designboom.com

If the system predicts that the crash cannot be stopped, and if the aircraft is flying below 3,000 feet, it activates the system automatically, wrapping the aircraft with inflating external airbags (pilots can also stop the system manually if needed). The system, which appears on The James Dyson Award 2025 entries, also monitors engine status, direction, speed, altitude, temperature, and pilot activity before it makes the decision on its own.
The team’s idea employs a set of high-speed airbags placed at the front, bottom, and back of the aircraft. These multi-layered materials are dubbed to deploy in under two seconds and absorb impact and reduce damage to the aircraft and people on board. If the engines are still working, the reverse thrust feature is activated, which slows the aircraft down before it hits the ground.

Just hope there aren't any glitches. Would be a bitch if the system triggered on some sort of 'false alarm'. Now you're in a flying marshmallow!

 

[mrjurrs]

Gonna need to see this in action. In a testing scenario of course.

project rebirth proposes AI airplane crash survival system with inflating external airbags

www.designboom.com

Just hope there aren't any glitches. Would be a bitch if the system triggered on some sort of 'false alarm'. Now you're in a flying marshmallow!

This would be such a massive boondoggle that I expected the current administration would have put out no-bid contracts on it.

 

[Individual]

Why not just deploy a massive sized parachute, or several?

 

[Deuce]

Gonna need to see this in action. In a testing scenario of course.

project rebirth proposes AI airplane crash survival system with inflating external airbags

www.designboom.com

Just hope there aren't any glitches. Would be a bitch if the system triggered on some sort of 'false alarm'. Now you're in a flying marshmallow!

It's bullshit to try and dupe investors, the "slap an AI label on a completely unrelated project" is a dead giveaway.

 

[Deuce]

Gonna need to see this in action. In a testing scenario of course.

project rebirth proposes AI airplane crash survival system with inflating external airbags

www.designboom.com

Just hope there aren't any glitches. Would be a bitch if the system triggered on some sort of 'false alarm'. Now you're in a flying marshmallow!

Every single part of this idea is exceedingly stupid and absolutely no part of it will ever be approved for use in aircraft. They're just trying to steal money from investors.

Unexpectedly altering airflow over the horizontal stabilizer in a low-altitude, low-airspeed condition has pretty decent odds of increasing impact force due to a sudden change in pitch attitude or even inducing a tailplane stall. At least they weren't dumb enough to put airbags on the wings in their CGI mockup.