Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu From: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Newsgroups: net.columbia Subject: Re: Ejection Seats Message-ID: <541@eneevax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Feb-86 09:30:05 EST Article-I.D.: eneevax.541 Posted: Thu Feb 27 09:30:05 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 1-Mar-86 17:42:42 EST References: <2911@ut-ngp.UUCP> <3046@umcp-cs.UUCP> Reply-To: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Organization: Imperial Widget Research Center, Kingdom of Maryland Lines: 29 In article <2016@jhunix.UUCP> ins_argr@jhunix.UUCP (Robert G Roberds) writes: >> > ... the shuttle crew seems to be spread on >> > two decks at launch. An ejection option would require an easy access >> > path from seats on the lower deck, thru the upper deck, and out thru >> > the skin of the craft. >> >> No, you can eject the lower-deck seats downward. This is what's done >> on the B-52, which has two decks. Of course, this means you need ejection >> hatches or blowaway panels or whatever on the underside. >> -- >> Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology > >One probulum. The external tank is there. Assuming the impact didn't >kill them and/or set off an explosion, the aborting astronauts would >quickly find themselves "Medium Cool" in a bath of cryogenic fuels, >with a one-way ticket to nowhere... > >Bob Roberds@The JohnSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS Hopkins University Hello people! Why hasn't anyone suggested ejection modules as are used on the B-1 and FB-111, where the entire crew compartment is ejected? -dave -- David Hsu Communication & Signal Processing Lab, EE Department University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 hsu@eneevax.umd.edu {seismo,allegra}!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu "Godzilla has been spotted in Sector 5!"