Intertechnique

Jacques Claude

Raymond H Beaussant

The device is for connecting the shell or face piece of an oral nasal breathing mask of a fighter pilot to a helmet. It comprises two fasteners each placed on one side of a median vertical plane of the helmet and one at least of which is provided with a quick fastening and unfastening attachment device. Each fastener is formed as a link rigid in the vertical direction and non-extensible, arranged to allow rotational movement of the mask with respect to the helmet about a direction perpendicular to the direction of the link and substantially parallel to said median vertical plane.

Device for connecting a breathing mask to a helmet

A breathing and acceleration protection apparatus for the pilot of a fighter aircraft includes a source of pressurized respiratory gas (typically a liquid oxygen converter) and an anti-g regulator valve means fed by the source and connected to inflatable trouser pockets of a g-suit carried by the pilot. A demand regulator delivers respiratory gas to the pilot. The anti-g regulator valve includes an inertia body movable responsive to acceleration along a predetermined direction for increasing the pressure in the pockets and when an amount of acceleration in excess of 2 g is sensed. Additional means responsive to the aircraft altitude establish a static pressure in the pockets at a value which increases with altitude in the absence of acceleration.

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Fresnes, France

Jacques Claude