"Bill Silvey" wrote in message
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"Ken Duffey" wrote in message

If anyone is interested........

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Sir: rotary wing question(s) for you:

The Russians had been working on RWAC egress systems that consisted of
rotor-cutting charges fired perhaps one second before cockpit egress; do
you
know if that was put into production and also was it made part of the
Ka-50-2 with it's tandem rotors (which I imagine might be more difficult
to
"clear")...

TIA.

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Bill,

The Ka-50 is fitted with a Zvezda K-37 lightweight rocket ejection system
that extracts the seat and pilot after first shedding the co-axial (not
tandem) rotors.

AFAIK, the two-seat Ka-52 and Ka-50-2 have the same system.

There is a photo of the K-37 seat down the bottom of the Ka-50 pages at :-
http://mysite.freeserve.com/aircraft...aft_portal.htm

Click on the approriate link - Ka-50, Ka-52, Ka-50-2.

Ken Duffey