FIRED FROM PLANE
RISKY TEST- FOR PILOT
LONDON, May 31
Experiments will be made next week to find a way of enabling a pilot to make an emergency escape from a high-speed aircraft.
The aviation writer of “The Times ’ states that at speeds approaching 600 miles an hour it is impossible for a pilot to escape by jumping over the side. Since September, the Martin Baker Aircraft Company has been experimenting with a mechanical ejector, the motive force of which is a cartridge fired by the pilot, which, in one-fifth of a' second, propels the pilot, still in His seat, through the cockpit, the hood of which is jettisoned. At a speed of 60 feet a second it hurls him 60 feet distant to prevent a collision with the tailplane,' The force equals 23 times that of gravity. An Irishman, Bernard Lynch, aged 27, has volunteered to be filmed being fired from a Gloster Meteor fighter during the test next week.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 197, 3 June 1946, Page 3
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