Assessment of the Impact of Emergency Rescue Technologies on the Formation of Aircraft Technical Architecture

This paper presents a comprehensive study devoted to assessing the influence of collective rescue systems on the formation of the technical architecture and appearance of a passenger aircraft. A comparative analysis of safety levels across different modes of transport is carried out, and the relevance of developing collective rescue systems is substantiated. A detailed overview of existing and promising emergency rescue system concepts is given, and their key technical and operational limitations are identified. The main focus is on the methodology for designing aircraft with an integrated collective rescue system, including structural decomposition, selection of aerodynamic layout, volumetric-mass composition, and calculation of parachute system parameters. Based on mathematical and parametric modeling, the impact of collective rescue system on the weight–size and flight–technical characteristics of the aircraft is analyzed. It is shown that implementing the collective rescue system concept is most effective when designing new aircraft using a modular principle and requires cross-sectoral cooperation. The study concludes that creating passenger aircraft with collective rescue system is in principle feasible and advisable, provided an optimized compromise between safety, economics, and operational characteristics is achieved.