Simviation Forum - Ejection seat tests on Su25 frogfoot-IL-28

Dec 24^th, 2006 at 10:49am

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Reply #1 - Dec 24^th, 2006 at 4:29pm

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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?"

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Reply #2 - Dec 25^th, 2006 at 10:30am

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Chris_F wrote on Dec 24^th, 2006 at 4:29pm:

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.

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Reply #3 - Dec 25^th, 2006 at 11:07am

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Ivan wrote on Dec 25^th, 2006 at 10:30am:

Chris_F wrote on Dec 24^th, 2006 at 4:29pm:

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.... Cool

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Reply #4 - Dec 25^th, 2006 at 12:32pm

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Chris_F wrote on Dec 24^th, 2006 at 4:29pm:

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?"

There's always someone nuts enough to test fly an ejector seat. How do you think the British and Americans tested theirs? (It's like the American atomic bomb experiments on troops, and germ warfare experiments on live troops in the 50's etc.)

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Reply #5 - Dec 25^th, 2006 at 6:50pm

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Chris_F wrote on Dec 24^th, 2006 at 4:29pm:

You wanna bet that guy "volunteered" for his assignment?

I see no reason to doubt it. Roll Eyes

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

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Reply #6 - Dec 26^th, 2006 at 8:45am

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Hagar wrote on Dec 25^th, 2006 at 6:50pm:

Chris_F wrote on Dec 24^th, 2006 at 4:29pm:

You wanna bet that guy "volunteered" for his assignment?

I see no reason to doubt it. Roll Eyes

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 Cool

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