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From: urbanf@yj.data.nokia.fi (Urban Fredriksson)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Safe upside-down ejection
Message-ID: <1991Feb4.052409.15206@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 4 Feb 91 05:24:09 GMT
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From: urbanf@yj.data.nokia.fi  (Urban Fredriksson)
gwh%soda.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert) writes:



>From: gwh%soda.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert)

>In article <1991Jan27.112624.29486@cbnews.att.com> jokim@jarthur.Claremont.edu (John H. Kim) writes:

>With a modern ejection seat, the chances that you will survive without
>serious injury during a 'normal' ejection (not upside-down-low-altitude, etc)

  In fact, you CAN eject upside-down-at-low-altitude quite
  safely, PROVIDED the velocity vector points above the horizon.

  For a Viggen an example figure is 800 km/h, 20 m, 5 degrees up.
  You'll then fly an 1100 m arc, with a top of about 80 m.


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