Lifeboat dropped by an aircraft to assist in rescue operations
A British, Uffa Fox-type airborne lifeboat, shown rigged for sailing, in front of a Vickers Warwick
Airborne lifeboats were powered lifeboats that were made to be dropped by fixed-wing aircraft into water to aid in air-sea rescue operations. An airborne lifeboat was to be carried by a heavy bomber specially modified to handle the external load of the lifeboat. The airborne lifeboat was intended to be dropped by parachute to land within reach of the survivors of an accident on the ocean, specifically airmen survivors of an emergency water landing. Airborne lifeboats were used during World War II by the United Kingdom and on Dumbo rescue missions by the United States from 1943 until the mid-1950s.[1]
An airbornelifeboat was to be carried by a heavy bomber specially modified to handle the external load of the lifeboat. The airbornelifeboat was intended...
were fitted with the 1,700 lb (770 kg) Mk.IA airbornelifeboat and used for air-sea rescue. The lifeboat, designed by yachtsman Uffa Fox, laden with supplies...
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manufactured PT boats, and produced the first American airbornelifeboat, the model A-1 lifeboat. The company also had a subsidiary architectural firm...
May 2015. Retrieved 22 May 2015. Uffa Fox Website A picture of an AirborneLifeboat being released LIFE magazine photos of Fox and the Duke of Edinburgh...
Vincent lifeboat engine was a unique design of two-stroke petrol engine. It was developed during World War II as a highly efficient engine for airborne lifeboats...
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broadcast a distress signal allowing the location to be established. Airbornelifeboat – Lifeboat dropped by an aircraft to assist in rescue operations Avalanche...
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dipole ventral antennas fitted aft of the radome and carrying an airbornelifeboat in an adapted bomb bay. The armament was often removed and the mid-upper...
with great difficulty. Two of the crew succumbed from exposure. An airbornelifeboat was dropped to them but fell some 500 yards down wind. The men struggled...
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they were desperately needed for A/S operations. By 1942 the Mark I AirborneLifeboat and sailable dingy were in production; these were usually jettisoned...
23 April 2014. Flight, February 13, 1953. "Service Aviation: New AirborneLifeboat." Retrieved on September 21, 2009. Archived October 21, 2012, at the...
and radar was fitted as well as the equipment to carry and drop an Airbornelifeboat. The Lancaster was operated by French forces over the Atlantic and...
won the Concours d'Elegance at a French regatta in Aix-les-Bains. AirborneLifeboat - A Mark 1 version of Uffa Fox's 1943 Air/Sea Rescue design. The Mark...
May, Atule and a B-29 Superfortress "Dumbo" plane—which carried an airbornelifeboat for air-sea rescue operations—conducted a coordinated attack on two...
the opposed piston two stroke engine to be fitted to the eleven man airbornelifeboat. Irving remained in UK until 1949 when he returned home to Australia...
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Stephen Brewster (1994). Rescue from the skies : the story of the airbornelifeboats. London: H.M.S.O. p. 5. ISBN 0-11-772761X. "Early history and formation...
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