That is incredible, TwinHueyMan! A real statement on survivability in that machine - great pity about crew chief, though. It is amazing how stuff floats about in a reduced g environment, fun but a worry for control jamming.
The real problem with airbags, for cars in particular, is that all the testing is done with the dummy in the nominal driving position. In real accidents folks don't always sit how they're meant to. Some of Murray Mackays talks had cases where folks had injured themselves by having arm across steering wheel when airbag went off, and there have been other out of position fatalities
. For my $0.02 an airbag is a last resort, with perhaps cartridge driven collapse of cyclic preffered - as long as trigger mech is reliable in high vibration environment
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Mart