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On 01/02/2015 14:34, Joan wrote:
> On 01/02/2015 15:18, Ri©ardo wrote:
>> On 01/02/2015 13:59, Joseph Testagrose wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone know where the ejector seat and person came from?
>>
>
> http://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A49097307
>
> extract :
> On 1 July, 1960 Valiant WP199 took off from RAF Finningley, Yorkshire
> and set course for the Martin-Baker airfield at Chalgrove, Oxfordshire.
> The bomber approached the airfield at 1,000 feet and in view of various
> representatives of the ministry, manufacturers and Royal Air Force, the
> man in the hot seat4, banged out of the rear compartment, facing
> backwards. W T 'Doddy' Hay, a civilian tester and part-time guinea-pig
> for the Martin-Baker company, exited the Valiant in the ejector seat and
> arced high above the tail of the aircraft. As the seat stabilised under
> the influence of a trailing drogue parachute, a shackle automatically
> released, separating him from the seat and deployed his main parachute.
> He remains to this day the only person to have ejected from the rear
> compartment of any V-Bomber. The test conclusively proved the viability
> of rearward-facing ejection.
>
> Joan
>
Thank you Joan, that's interesting stuff.
A "part-time guinea-pig"? Bugger doing that sort of thing full time!
;-)
Ri©ardo
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