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From: voder!nsc!dtg.nsc.com!alan@decwrl.dec.com (Alan Hepburn)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Ejection seats
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Date: 4 Feb 91 05:25:11 GMT
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From: voder!nsc!dtg.nsc.com!alan@decwrl.dec.com (Alan Hepburn)

There's been talk recently about the injuries of the Allied POWs being
caused by the act of ejecting from their planes.  Some people have
said that some planes are designed such that the pilot must eject through
a closed canopy.  It seems to me that a canopy designed to withstand
air pressures of supersonic flight would be extremely difficult to
punch through with a slow-moving seat, or head.  Does anyone out there
have any real data on this?  Can a pilot survive a punch out through
a canopy?


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Alan Hepburn                    "To treat your facts with imagination
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mail:  alan@berlioz.nsc.com                  John Burroughs