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It’s a Martin Baker seat. At least he’ll get a tie. https://martin-baker.com/ejection-tie-club/ https://martin-baker.com/ejection-tie-club/
by nickt 4y ago
It’s a Martin Baker seat. At least he’ll get a tie.
https://martin-baker.com/ejection-tie-club/ https://martin-baker.com/ejection-tie-club/
- lastofthemojito 4y agoIrritatingly imprecise wording on that page: > Here at Martin-Baker, we run an exclusive club that unifies all pilots whose lives we’ve helped save: life membership of the Ejection Tie Club is confined solely to those who have emergency ejected from an aircraft using a Martin-Baker ejection seat, which has thereby saved their life. Does that mean you need to be a pilot to be a member of the club? Or does being a co-pilot or passenger qualify? And if you're testing the ejection seat (wittingly or unwittingly as in the case of this article) in a healthy airplane, such that it isn't a life-saving technique, do you still qualify?
- nraynaud 4y agono, but you have bail out volontarily and in a dangerous situation, the question has already been put to the manufacturer: no tie for the unluky retired.
- dylan604 4y agoVoluntarily leaving your healthy plane will get your license revoked by the FAA as we've recently seen happen.
- ILMostro7 4y agoWhere?
- ghostly_s 4y agoThat odd story a couple months ago where some guy seemingly crashed his plane deliberately for tiktok clout?
- userbinator 4y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31104691 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31104691 And before, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29729307 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29729307
- ILMostro7 4y agoahh, thank you
- LittlePeter 4y agoA YouTuber purposely crashed his plane in California, FAA says: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31104691 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31104691
- kube-system 4y agoOnly if you’re the pilot.
- kergonath 4y agoThat is terrible PR. In any case, who knows what would have happened if he’d stayed on board, considering that nobody seemed to care about the limits the doctor set? On the other hand, he probably does not want a reminder of his “adventure”.
- QuarterReptile 4y ago>In any case, who knows what would have happened if he’d stayed on board, considering that nobody seemed to care about the limits the doctor set? He would've been much safer, though maybe he would've passed out (which I fully recognize as an unpleasant experience.) Ejecting from a jet would be a very hazardous day for any job.
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- kergonath 4y agoYeah you're right. Still terrible PR. It just sounds petty.
- ChuckMcM 4y agoGiven the spirit of the club I bet he got a tie.
- adwww 4y agoA co-pilot is still a pilot, and nobody willingly ejects from a healthy aircraft. Ejecting can still go wrong, and subjects your body to huge compressive forces - it's not uncommon to fracture your spine. Interesting point about non pilot crew though - although there must be a fairly limited number of fast jets that have mission crew with ejector seats. Perhaps a couple of US bombers?
- dylan604 4y agoWasn't there a plane (thinking bomber with you) that ejected down from the aircraft so that the minimum altitude was super important?
- adwww 4y agoB52 ejects in all directions, some up, some down ha.
- rjsw 4y agoEarly F-104 Starfighters had a downward-firing ejection seat [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-104_Starfighter#Ejection_seat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-104_Starfighter#Eje...
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- robonerd 4y agoThe Soviet Tu-22 (a bomber) also did this. (Though not the Tu-22M, which is basically a different plane.)
- lstodd 4y agohttp://www.airforce.ru/aircraft/miscellaneous/ejectionseats/tu/tu-22_seats_ph_09.jpg http://www.airforce.ru/aircraft/miscellaneous/ejectionseats/... Super convenient - climb a ladder, strap in and then tech guys winch you up with a hand crank (on first models). Altitude less than 1500 ft and you're dead. G-load above a threshold and its rails jam, so you're not going anywhere. 1950s tech that flew into 1990s.