Ejection seat tests on Su25 frogfoot-IL-28

[Fitter]

Here

[Chris_F]

You 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?"

[Ivan]

[quote]You wanna bet that guy "volunteered" for his assignment?

[Fitter]

You 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-)

[Woodlouse2002]

[quote]You wanna bet that guy "volunteered" for his assignment?

[Hagar]

You 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

[Fitter]

You 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-)