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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Challenger disaster
Message-ID: <1963@peora.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Feb-86 09:02:06 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  7 09:02:06 1986
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> How are you going to put ejection seats on the durn thing anyway?
> ... There is no roof to be blown clear ...

Besides these issues people have been bringing up, one thing that hasn't
been mentioned is the result of ejecting a human being (even if clothed in
a helmet, flight suit, etc.) out of an aircraft moving at the speed of the
shuttle.  People have gotten killed in the past just ejecting out of a
conventional fighter plane, because of the force of the air rushing past
them when they were ejected into the air; remember that they are moving
both forward at the speed of the aircraft, and also upward at the speed of
the ejection seat.  This would exert a considerable shearing force on the
body of the person being ejected.
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