hi-speed ejections

Jukka O. Kauppinen wrote:

Um?

http://showcase.netins.net/web/herke...n/history.html

Um, this completely ignores the German development of ejection seats.
Germans had first successful ejection, first ejection seats in series
production aircraft and did some 60 successful ejections during the WW2.

jok

Message received and understood. Can you suggest some good references
to look at for athe synopsis page?

MAH

In article , Jukka O. Kauppinen
writes
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http://showcase.netins.net/web/herke...ion/eject.html

Um?

http://showcase.netins.net/web/herke...n/history.html

Um, this completely ignores the German development of ejection seats.
Germans had first successful ejection, first ejection seats in series
production aircraft and did some 60 successful ejections during the WW2.

jok

SAAB were also working on ejection seats for the J21.
--
Peter

Ying tong iddle-i po!

(Bill McClain) wrote in message . com...
My son was asking me about ejecting from jet aircraft. He's 8, and
he's convinced that no matter how fast an airplane is going, it's
possible to eject. I said I didn't think that the guy who was flying
the MiG-25 at Mach 3+ was able to eject from his aircraft with the
runaway engines (if that's what was happening), and that the SR-71
isn't really something you can safely eject from at max speed and
altitude. Any knowledgeable remarks I can pass along to him?

Can't remember the details right now, but a particularly ill-fated
ejection on one of the Tu-22 "Blinder" prototypes or development a/cs
only left the rear gunner alive because his seat was facing aft and
protected him. The navigator, on the other side, was torn apart - and
the pilot never ejected, struggling to save the airframe. The whole
story is on the Gordon and Rigmant's Blinder & Backfire book.

HTH
Bonehammer

See how they got around mach 2 ejections on the B-58 Hustler. Check my home
page below and use the link to the "More Aircraft Pictures Annex" there or
use this link to go directly to the annex. You will see some data on the
individual capsules we used for ejection.
http://members.cox.net/dumwid/
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B-58 Hustler History: http://members.cox.net/dschmidt1/
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"Bill McClain" wrote in message
om...
My son was asking me about ejecting from jet aircraft. He's 8, and
he's convinced that no matter how fast an airplane is going, it's
possible to eject. I said I didn't think that the guy who was flying
the MiG-25 at Mach 3+ was able to eject from his aircraft with the
runaway engines (if that's what was happening), and that the SR-71
isn't really something you can safely eject from at max speed and
altitude. Any knowledgeable remarks I can pass along to him?

A good book on Blackbird flight test is "Blackbird Rising,"
by Donn Byrnes and the late Ken Hurley. Hurley was an AF
flight test engineer and the book relates his tale of being
in '952 (#3 SR) when an unstart caused a roll past 90 deg.
The pilot got it back down, but while he was doing that,
Hurley was madly writing notes so that there would be some
evidence of what happened in case they didn't survive.

It was a short time later that '952 came apart; there's
a chapter dedicated to it, "Number Three and Jim Zwayer
Died the Same Day."

Byrnes told me that in B-58 testing there were some high-Q
ejections in which crew members' brains were essentially
"homogenized" from the forces, despite the capsule.

(Bill McClain) wrote in message . com...
My son was asking me about ejecting from jet aircraft. He's 8, and
he's convinced that no matter how fast an airplane is going, it's
possible to eject.

He's right. Technology has been developed for all speed ranges:
including ejection from the X15 at mach 6 and was in development from
Dyna Soar at Mach 25.

I think your child will enjoy these:

http://www.astronautix.com/craft/moose.htm

http://www.astronautix.com/craftfam/rescue.htm



I said I didn't think that the guy who was flying
the MiG-25 at Mach 3+ was able to eject from his aircraft with the
runaway engines (if that's what was happening), and that the SR-71
isn't really something you can safely eject from at max speed and
altitude. Any knowledgeable remarks I can pass along to him?

The SR71's ejection seats were based on the Gemini space capsule
ejection seats and handelled mach 3+. It was necessary to wear a
space suit.

masters of high speed ejections without space suits are the Russians
in the vorm of the Zevezada company. They had little details like a
blast defelctor that pops up.

Someone did mangage a supersonic ejection from a F15 in a vertical
dive. They survived with lacerations, bruisting and lost most of
their clothes. The USAF assumes it will only be shot down at low
level subsonic flight.

The story is to be found on "the ejection site"