{"id":23767,"date":"2024-05-29T07:44:42","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T02:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=23767"},"modified":"2025-04-07T04:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T23:18:07","slug":"evacuation-slides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/evacuation-slides\/","title":{"rendered":"What are \u2018evacuation slides\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Evacuation Slides:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>inflatable slide <\/strong>which allows passengers to safely <strong>exit the flight during<\/strong> an emergency, especially when the flight door is high above the ground.<\/li>\n<li>There are four types of evacuation slides:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Inflatable slide:<\/strong> The inflatable slide helps passengers <strong>descend to the ground from an aircraft exit door<\/strong>. In case they cannot use the doors, they can try to reach either of the aircraft wings. From there, they can use the slide to reach the ground.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Inflatable slide\/raft:<\/strong> It does the same job as the slide, but it can also be used as a <strong>life raft in <\/strong>case the aircraft has to land on water.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Inflatable exit ramp:<\/strong> The inflatable exit ramp is installed to help passengers move from <strong>certain overwing exits<\/strong> (or aircraft emergency exits) to the wings, if that path looks better for reaching the ground.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Inflatable exit ramp\/slide:<\/strong> The inflatable exit ramp\/slide is there to assist in descending from an <strong>overwing exit or aeroplane wing<\/strong> to the ground. It is a combination ramp and wing-to-ground device.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>These are typically made <strong>from carbon fibres and a nylon material<\/strong> coated with urethane for fire resistance. Strong fibres are used to build these slides so that passengers are not able to tear them while descending.<\/li>\n<li>Slides are generally packed and installed within a cabin door or into an external fuselage compartment.<\/li>\n<li>They are <strong>inflated with<\/strong> the help of <strong>high-pressure gas carbon dioxide or nitrogen gas<\/strong> containers and ambient air through suction machines.<\/li>\n<li>What are the <strong>protocols for deploying evacuation slides?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>An evacuation slide must be deployed when the distance between the ground and the flight exit door is six feet or more.<\/li>\n<li>The European Union Aviation Safety Agency\u2019s guidelines say that a slide should be automatically deployed, once the door is opened. The slide must be inflated between six and 10 seconds, depending on its location.<\/li>\n<li>It should be properly deployable <strong>in all weather conditions<\/strong> \u2014 as cold <strong>as -40 degree Celsius and as hot as 71 degree Celsiu<\/strong>s.<\/li>\n<li>The slide should be able to sustain a rainfall of up to one inch an hour and winds up to the <strong>speed of 46 km\/hr<\/strong> which would be coming 45 degree angles around the aeroplane.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is a polymer?<\/h3>\n<p>A polymer is any of a class of natural or synthetic substances composed of very large molecules, called macromolecules, which are multiples of simpler chemical units called monomers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-sci-tech\/evacuation-slides-types-9357581\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Passengers evacuated from Indigo flight after bomb scare: What are \u2018evacuation slides\u2019?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evacuation slides  is an inflatable slide which allows passengers to safely exit the flight during an emergency, especially when the flight door is high above the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}