In July 1969, Goodyear supplied essential products for the Apollo 11 spacecraft, including brakes, window frames, a purge and conditioning system, instrument panel pads and
flotation bags. (RW+)
Since placing slings under the hull was not an option, for the next 2 days, the dive team focused its efforts on rigging nylon straps and buoyancy
flotation bags on structural points of the vessel.
He rescued the men from their stricken vessel and salvors were yesterday desperately trying to attach
flotation bags to the boat in order to tow it back to shore.
Mother Mary was a housewife who sewed
flotation bags used by D-Day landing tanks, and who later worked in a material shop in Birmingham city centre.
We would have to use giant rock cutters to saw all the way round Great Britain to separate our island from the Eurasian tectonic plate; then we would need phenomenal sized
flotation bags so that we could tow ourselves with super tugs to somewhere warmer (since global warming doesn't seem to be working any more); and finally settle off some other continent.
"But then the
flotation bags came out and the water stopped about knee-level.
The helicopter landed upright and floated thanks to
flotation bags which inflate when it lands on water.
The aircraft was fitted with
flotation bags designed to inflate as soon as it hit the water.
An RAF rescue centre spokesman said the helicopter landed upright and floated thanks to
flotation bags which inflate when it lands on water.
Flight Sergeant James Lyne, who is Assistant Controller at the ARCC, said that the helicopter had landed upright and floated - thanks to
flotation bags which inflate when it lands on water.
The Downings based diving team led by Kevin McShane loosened the cannon from the bow deck and secured heavy lifting chains to
flotation bags.
I was relieved the day the Navy helicopter community decided to take the emergency
flotation bags off the H-60s, probably more than any other helo pilot.