Description of a Bauman Bag from the manfactures

Updated: 12:30 AM 7/31/2025
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The Bauman Bag, used as a Short Haul or Hoist Lift Helicopter Rescue Bag, is the soft fabric solution to Urban or Wilderness extractions. S&R teams have deployed the Bauman Bag by backpacks, aircraft, and vehicles. Product in a stuff sack is about 11 inch diameter by 21 inch length. At less than 15 pounds, the Bauman bag has low light reflective tape and chemical light stick pockets for night operations with night vision equipment. In the airship all the time.


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Key Benefits of the single point suspension Bauman Bag:

  1. Secures the patient and is stable in flight
  2. Rapid deployment unit may be used with or without backboards or liters
  3. Accepts patients clad in climbing or skiing clothes and boots. 


Pricing includes shipping to U.S. Lower 48 and Canada 

Bauman Bag  BBU                     Price U.S.  or  Canadian Dollars
Arizona model-Cordura fabric bbc-1     $820              $970               
ballistic cloth bottoms
adjustable or fixed straps

Picture of the use of a Bauman Bag from the manfacuter's web site


Defination of a Bauman Bag from the Short Haul Manual

Bauman Bag - (aka Heli-rescue Bag, Jenny Bag); A soft hammock style stretcher constructed of cordura material suspended from a single centered connection point for short-haul rescue. Generically these are referred to as heli-rescue bags. One of the major design features of the Bauman Bag is how aerodynamically stable it is during helicopter rescue evolutions. Named for Tom Bauman of Rainy Day Equipment, Inc. The Bauman Bag Stretcher evolved from the original "Horizontal Lifesaving Net" created by Fritz Buhler, Swiss Air Rescue in 1966, which was constructed of a lightweight fishnet material that was small enough to fit in a rescuer’s pocket. Commercial heli-rescue bag manufactuers include; Rainy Day Equipment (Canada) and Tyromont (Austria).