Review of development of seats from first swinging arm concept through early manually-operated seat to rocket-assisted completely automatic zero/zero ejection seat; description of test rigs used; features and operation of various types of seats developed and their components; reference is made to work done by U S Navy and seats developed; description of underwater ejection seats and tests carried out; example of escape equipment, directly connected with ejection seats, is tree escape system ensuring safe escape for aircrew members who are accidentally caught up in tree during parachute descent.
`1,000 lives saved' -- Development of martin-baker ejection seats
Aircraft Eng
Aircraft Engineering ; 37 , n 5
1965
13 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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