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Related to backups and fail-safes heroically doing their jobs - Found on HN awhile ago - stories of successful ejection seat deployment saving each pilots life.
by K2h 4y ago
Related to backups and fail-safes heroically doing their jobs - Found on HN awhile ago - stories of successful ejection seat deployment saving each pilots life. https://martin-baker.com/ejection-tie-club/ https://martin-baker.com/ejection-tie-club/
- yardie 4y agoI wonder how many HNers grew up on Top Gun and thinking ejection seats are inherently dangerous because Goose died while operating one.
- fsagx 4y agoWard Carroll (a former F14 rear-seater) has a good breakdown on F14 ejection issues (and the dreaded flat spin) on his youtube channel: The Truth About the F-14 and Goose’s Death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwS1k8LKxJg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwS1k8LKxJg Synopsis: Goose's death was based on a real accident, but ejection protocol was changed by the Top-Gun timeline. Had Goose followed procedure, he should have survived the ejection.
- jasonwatkinspdx 4y agoEjection seats are inherently dangerous for sure. Even an ideal ejection is a big enough hit on your spinal column your height will measure different for a bit afterwards.
- na85 4y agoEven modern 0/0 seats (i.e. theoretically survivable for zero airspeed and zero altitude ejections) carry inherent risk. When I was in the military a friend of mine was killed ejecting in an emergency shortly after takeoff. You're sitting on a loaded and primed tube of explosives; there's no way to make that totally benign. Just a few days ago the Iranians lost two pilots when their ejector seats malfunctioned in a hangar and catapulted the occupants into the roof of the hangar.