Abstract: For improving a method for rescuing a person sitting in an ejection seat that has ejected from an aircraft in an emergency, wherein depending on data collected by measuring apparatus arranged on the ejection seat a control device initiates deployment of stabilizing and/or braking parachutes attached to the seat and furthermore initiates separation of the person from the ejection seat, it is provided that while the connection between aircraft and ejection seat exists, current flight data for the aircraft are fed via a data bus to an ejection seat computer situated on the ejection seat and once the ejection seat has separated from the aircraft the movement data for the ejection seat in space are collected and forwarded to the ejection seat computer by a navigation platform attached to the ejection seat and, that the relevant flight data for the ejection seat are calculated in the ejection seat computer starting with flight position data for the aircraft at the time the ejection seat separated and when pre-estab

Abstract: In the quick-release lock for a parachute, a measuring device (1, 2) is used for continuously measuring the distance of the parachutist from the surface on which he intends to land. In this arrangement, the measured distance values are repeatedly compared with predetermined values in a comparing device (3, 4, 7) during the descent. Only if the measured values agree with the predetermined values during the last section of the descent during, which the comparisons are carried out, is the parachute automatically released from the load, for example a person, when the distance 0 is reached.

Abstract: An emergency transmitter provided with separate devices for the transmission of a first frequency and a second frequency. The transmitter is contained within a floatable housing. The transmission devices are connected via a switch to a battery. The transmission devices are comprised of a common quartz or crystal oscillator connected with frequency multipliers which are connected to drive stages and to high frequency final stages. The latter are connected to a transmission antenna which extends from the housing. Also provided is a signal generator for modulating the transmitted frequencies. A fixed-cycle control device is associated with the first and second transmission devices and alternately sets the two transmission devices into operation.

Abstract: The compressed-gas device for the life-saving services which can be activated by water, more especially the automatic separating coupling for parachutes, comprises a channel (9) and two detector chambers (10, 11) which, via openings (12, 13), are connected to the channel (9) and, via openings (14, 15), are connected to one respective opposite outer surface (16, 17) of the device. The cross-section of the outwardly directed openings (14, 15) is larger than that of the connection openings (12, 13) to the channel (9). Only when the measuring block (2) is completely immersed in water are three pairs of electrodes (18, 19; 20, 21; 22, 23) bridged by water so that a fuel-gas charge is ignited via an electric circuit (7) with the aid of an igniter (8) (FIG. 2).