All new design and construction will enable fuel savings, enhanced passenger comfort, increased ease of maintenance and lower life-cycle costs.
PHOENIX (April 5, 2011) -“ AmSafe® Industries, Inc., the leading provider of highly engineered restraint systems, today unveiled its next-generation seatbelt airbag for commercial aviation at the 2011 Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg, Germany (booth 7F61).
-œAmSafe developed the first and only seatbelt airbag certified for use on commercial aircraft as a cost-effective method of 16G compliance for difficult-to-certify seat placements. Over the last 10 years it has become the standard solution for challenging seat certifications. As its benefits have become more widely understood, the use of our seatbelt airbag has grown beyond this narrow application, and the product has enabled the development of numerous creative premium class seating environments that simply could not be certified with standard restraints,- said Bill Hagan, president of AmSafe Industries, Inc. -œToday AmSafe is introducing our next-generation seatbelt airbag. Having listened to our airline customers, we have completely redesigned the system, once again advancing the state-of-the-art, and creating a product that is substantially lighter, sleeker, more intelligent and optimized to support fleetwide retrofits.-
The next-generation AmSafe Seatbelt Airbag will be available for delivery in the third quarter of 2011 and features numerous enhancements, including