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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Ejection seats
Message-ID: <1991Feb20.052848.182@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 20 Feb 91 05:28:48 GMT
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
>From: jabishop@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Jonathan A Bishop)
>We've also tried encapsulating the individual seats in the XB-70, but that
>didn't work well either...

In fairness, the XB-70 ejection capsules only got used once, which isn't
much of a statistical sample.  The B-58 had capsules, which allegedly
worked all right.  Aircraft intended for sustained supersonic speed really
*ought* to have capsules, because bare seats generally are not cleared for
use at supersonic speed.  (That's right -- all those Mach 2 fighters have
to slow to subsonic speeds before ejection or the warranty is void. :-))
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"Read the OSI protocol specifications?  | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
I can't even *lift* them!"              |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry


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