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The Vietnam War was still in full bloom when the US. Navy decided to be really creative about their downed aircrew rescue capabilities. One of the proposals was Kaman’s self-explanatory ̶…elpoderdelasgalaxias.wordpress.com
Jet was also a part of his degree project and was based on F-104 in his own words but with ramjets on wingtips and three rocket engines in fuselage for takeoff and intercept phase to increase speed. It was not late 1940s but 1959 actually so inspiration sources in Western media are obvious.
The F-102's Weber ejection seat was designed for a pilot weighing 180 lbs or less and the seat-man combination was supposed to be under 500 lbs. The seat was initiated by pulling either of the ejection handles from one of the sides of the seat pan once the pilot was in the correct position for ejection. With a quarter pound charge the seat would be fired up the rails and then a rocket motor of 5,000 lb thrust on the seat would ignite and give it a 16g acceleration. Pilots would have to kick themselves free of the seat in the earlier model of the seat. Weber then installed a man-seat separater strap that would reeled tight underneath the pilot and push them out of the seat.
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Blackbird pilots wore spurs, like F104 pilots.
During the 1950s, US Navy testing proved that a properly restrained pilot could survive a 40G deceleration.
Broken bones, but those will heal.
I'd rather undergo a 40g impact in something designed to withstand it, than in something that wasn't.
Makes me wonder what the R2D2 ejection concept was, if any
.I'm assuming none, but the manual drop out the bottom is a possibility. Not like the Star Wars pilots had any escape systems, so why wouldMakes me wonder what the R2D2 ejection concept was, if any
A little off topic, but an answer to the question:
Not that we ever saw it used...
It depends upon the cost or relative scarcity of pilots versus droids.
Circa 2000, Jim Woolley (retired US Navy parachute test jumper) casually mentioned that he had been contracted to find a solution to too-fast descent rates of F-111 cockpit escape capsules. The cockpits had gained weight as additional instruments, avionics, etc. were added over the years. Woolley’s solution was to cut a “smile” in the parachute canopy. This “smile” gave the parachute a bit of forward velocity and decreased the descent rate.
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That airbag inflated a rear cone that streamlines the seat and stabilizes/reduces tumbling.Grumman supersonic ejection seat w. airbag research ca.????
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In lore, the flight suits were rated for short emergency EVAs and the like, including lasting long enough to find shelter on worlds whose atmospheres were inhospitable to oxygen breathing lifeforms, though again we never saw that in action on the screens. (The standard Imperial fighter/bomber crew flight suits seemed to be somewhat superior to the Rebel Alliance/New Republic suits in that regard by the way, especially in vacuum or death pressure conditions).
