Escape slide with support tube assembly

摘要

An aircraft slide assembly (10) used for evacuating personnel from an aircraft (14) or other elevated structure having a longitudinally extending inflatable escape slide (10) and a stabilizing support tube assembly (20,21) attached to the underneath portion thereof closely adjacent the head end or upper end of the escape slide (10). The support tube has a first chamber and a second chamber with an orifice therebetween that allows inflation of the second chamber from the first chamber and thence allows the end wall of the first chamber to retract.