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From: welty@lewis.crd.ge.com (richard welty)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: ejection seats
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Date: 20 Jul 89 01:34:50 GMT
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From: welty@lewis.crd.ge.com (richard welty)

In article <8226@cbnews.ATT.COM>, Henry Spencer writes: 

*Aviation Week says the ejection was at about 300 feet, in fact.  On the
*other hand, the aircraft was inverted in a near-vertical dive, which is
*rather worse than inverted in level flight.  It's amazing that the pilot
*survived, let alone with nothing more than cuts and bruises.

it suggests that there has been a major improvement in Soviet
ejection seats; the seats on the early Mig 21 aircraft were
possibly more dangerous to the pilots than staying in the craft.

richard
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