An evacuation assembly of an aircraft includes an evacuation slide and a sheet coupled to the evacuation slide. The sheet may be deployable in a wind curtain configuration and a canopy configuration. In the wind curtain configuration, the sheet may extend, as a substantially vertical panel, longitudinally along opposing lateral sides of the evacuation slide. In the canopy configuration the sheet may extend over at least a portion of a top side of the evacuation slide. In the canopy configuration, the sheet may include a first portion that is the substantially vertical panel that extends longitudinally along the opposing lateral sides of the evacuation slide and a second portion that extends over the top side of the evacuation slide. The second portion of the curtain may in a furled, collapsed form in the wind curtain configuration and may be configured to unfurl in the canopy configuration.


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    Title :

    DUAL CONFIGURATION WIND CURTAIN FOR EVACUATION ASSEMBLY


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    Publication date :

    2018-09-27


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    B64D Ausrüstung für Flugzeuge , EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT



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