Ejection seat tests on Su25 frogfoot-IL-28
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Ejection seat tests on Su25 frogfoot-IL-28
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Re: Ejection seat tests on Su25 frogfoot-IL-28
Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 4:29 pmYou wanna bet that guy "volunteered" for his assignment? I can see it now: "The Soviet Union is a free country, you have choices. You can take your chances in the ejection seat, or take your chances with Ivan's AK47. See? Isn't it wonderful to live in a land of such opportunities?"
Re: Ejection seat tests on Su25 frogfoot-IL-28
Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 10:30 am[quote]You wanna bet that guy "volunteered" for his assignment?
Re: Ejection seat tests on Su25 frogfoot-IL-28
Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 11:07 amYou wanna bet that guy "volunteered" for his assignment? I can see it now: "The Soviet Union is a free country, you have choices. You can take your chances in the ejection seat, or take your chances with Ivan's AK47. See? Isn't it wonderful to live in a land of such opportunities?"
Il-28 age... no advanced test dummies then... so you went for a professional ejection seat tester... just as the americans did with the rocket sleds.
That's Ivan.... 8-)
Re: Ejection seat tests on Su25 frogfoot-IL-28
Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 12:32 pm[quote]You wanna bet that guy "volunteered" for his assignment?
Re: Ejection seat tests on Su25 frogfoot-IL-28
Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 6:50 pmYou wanna bet that guy "volunteered" for his assignment?
I see no reason to doubt it.
2006 marks the 60th anniversary of the UK's first airborne manned ejection using a Martin-Baker (M-B) ejector seat launched from a Gloster Meteor.
The UK's first 'dummy' ejection in flight was undertaken from a Boulton Paul Defiant on 24 June 1946 followed closely by a first manned airborne test on 24 July when Bernard (Benny) Lynch, then one of the company's experimental fitters, ejected from Chalgrove airfield-based Meteor EE416 at 320mph. Lynch went on to complete a further sixteen live ejection tests and was awarded the British Empire Medal for his work.
Since those first test firings, according to the company's website, M-B ejector seats have saved more than 7000 lives and one in every ten seats manufactured has been used to save a life. THE CHALGROVE METEORS
Re: Ejection seat tests on Su25 frogfoot-IL-28
Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 8:45 amYou wanna bet that guy "volunteered" for his assignment?
I see no reason to doubt it.
2006 marks the 60th anniversary of the UK's first airborne manned ejection using a Martin-Baker (M-B) ejector seat launched from a Gloster Meteor.
The UK's first 'dummy' ejection in flight was undertaken from a Boulton Paul Defiant on 24 June 1946 followed closely by a first manned airborne test on 24 July when Bernard (Benny) Lynch, then one of the company's experimental fitters, ejected from Chalgrove airfield-based Meteor EE416 at 320mph. Lynch went on to complete a further sixteen live ejection tests and was awarded the British Empire Medal for his work.
Since those first test firings, according to the company's website, M-B ejector seats have saved more than 7000 lives and one in every ten seats manufactured has been used to save a life. THE CHALGROVE METEORS
Hey Hagar...thanks for the great link...nice to see those Meteors in a state of art 8-)