Aircraft Lifting Bags and Recovery Equipment

Recovery teams are confronted with extremely difficult and varying situations when carrying out aircraft recovery. With the newly developed Vacuum Contour Chambers they literally get a better hold on the situation at the operation site.

For their size, aircraft have a lightweight construction. Naturally, this is of advantage for flight characteristics but for recovery this is more difficult. In addition to this fact, the shapes of wings and fuselages are as numerous as the many types of aircraft. When carrying out recovery operations with conventional aircraft lifting bags – without individual contour matching – it is often not possible to optimally position the aircraft lifting bags. The consequence: the object being recovered can easily slip.

Flexible and stable in every operational situation

Vetter, the pneumatic specialist, determined the weak points in the rescue process and now offer an innovative solution: Vacuum Contour Chambers which individually match to the shape of the aircraft. During operation these are firstly filled with polystyrene pellets and lastly vacuumed. The shape match is so exact that even areas of unevenness are reproduced in shape, e.g. rows of rivets.

Everything is solid but gently under control

Applicable for all types of aircraft, the stable chambers meet the highest safety specifications. Applied any amount of times, they enable guaranteed straight lifting with the minimum of pressure point loading on the sensitive aircraft body.

From innovation to standard

Since its new development in 2007, the system has become indispensible as an aid in the field of aircraft recovery. Also because it is able to be combined with normal pneumatic aircraft lifting bags.

Contact details:

Vetter GmbH

A Unit of IDEX Corporation

Blatzheimer Str. 10 – 12

DE-53909 Zülpich/GERMANY

Tel:  +49 (0) 2252/300860

Fax: +49 (0) 2252/300871

www.vetter.de

vetter.info@idexcorp.com