New USN USMC Life Preserver For AIRSAVE Survival Vests

[northcoastaero]

I recently stumbled upon an image of a Grumman C-2A Greyhound loadmaster

wearing a new type of Life Preserver Unit with the desert tan / coyote tan

AIRSAVE survival vest variant equipped the integrated harness. The LPU is

the around the waist, up the back, and around the neck style and is offered

in two versions:

 

-LPU-21E/P Manually inflated only for rotary-wing and non-ejection seat aircraft.

Possible non-ejection seat fixed-wing aircraft would be: C-2A; E-2C,D;

V-22; E-6B; P-8A; P-3C; and C-130.

 

-LPU-23D/P Automatically / manually inflated for ejection seat aircraft.

Possible aircraft would be: F/A-18; EA-18G; T-6A,B; T-45A,C;

EA-6B; AV-8B; TAV-8B.

 

 

https://www.defense.gov/Photos/Photo-Gallery?igphoto=2001185139

 

http://www.switlik.com/military/lpu-21

 

Just thought the flight gear enthusiasts and collectors would have in

interest in this. I wonder if there is an upgraded version of the

FLU-8/P series automatic inflators for the LPU-23D/P ?