UK2 WP199 Vickers ValiantB1 1960-06-27 Chalgrove.jpg

[Joseph Testagrose]

[Ri©ardo[_2_]]

On 01/02/2015 13:59, Joseph Testagrose wrote:

Does anyone know where the ejector seat and person came from?

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[Joan]

On 01/02/2015 15:18, Ri©ardo wrote:
> On 01/02/2015 13:59, Joseph Testagrose wrote:
>
> Does anyone know where the ejector seat and person came from?
>

http://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A49097307

extract :
On 1 July, 1960 Valiant WP199 took off from RAF Finningley, Yorkshire
and set course for the Martin-Baker airfield at Chalgrove, Oxfordshire.
The bomber approached the airfield at 1,000 feet and in view of various
representatives of the ministry, manufacturers and Royal Air Force, the
man in the hot seat4, banged out of the rear compartment, facing
backwards. W T 'Doddy' Hay, a civilian tester and part-time guinea-pig
for the Martin-Baker company, exited the Valiant in the ejector seat and
arced high above the tail of the aircraft. As the seat stabilised under
the influence of a trailing drogue parachute, a shackle automatically
released, separating him from the seat and deployed his main parachute.
He remains to this day the only person to have ejected from the rear
compartment of any V-Bomber. The test conclusively proved the viability
of rearward-facing ejection.

Joan

[Ri©ardo]

On 01/02/2015 14:34, Joan wrote:
> On 01/02/2015 15:18, Ri©ardo wrote:
>> On 01/02/2015 13:59, Joseph Testagrose wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone know where the ejector seat and person came from?
>>
>
> http://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A49097307
>
> extract :
> On 1 July, 1960 Valiant WP199 took off from RAF Finningley, Yorkshire
> and set course for the Martin-Baker airfield at Chalgrove, Oxfordshire.
> The bomber approached the airfield at 1,000 feet and in view of various
> representatives of the ministry, manufacturers and Royal Air Force, the
> man in the hot seat4, banged out of the rear compartment, facing
> backwards. W T 'Doddy' Hay, a civilian tester and part-time guinea-pig
> for the Martin-Baker company, exited the Valiant in the ejector seat and
> arced high above the tail of the aircraft. As the seat stabilised under
> the influence of a trailing drogue parachute, a shackle automatically
> released, separating him from the seat and deployed his main parachute.
> He remains to this day the only person to have ejected from the rear
> compartment of any V-Bomber. The test conclusively proved the viability
> of rearward-facing ejection.
>
> Joan
>

Thank you Joan, that's interesting stuff.

A "part-time guinea-pig"? Bugger doing that sort of thing full time!

;-)

Ri©ardo

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