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Why some aircraft have downward-firing ejector
seats
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By
Stephen Dowling3rd August 2022
Some aircraft from the early jet age proved too dangerous for normal ejector seats. The solution? Seats which fired through the cockpit floor.
On 1 May 1957, Lockheed test pilot Jack
"Suitcase" Simpson took off from an air base in Palmdale, California,
on what was supposed to be a routine test flight of a new jet fighter.
It wasn't long before the flight took a turn for
the worse.
Simpson was testing a prototype of the Lockheed F-104
"Starfighter", the first
US jet fighter capable of flying at more than twice the speed of sound. It was
at the furthest limits of aircraft design at the time.
After flying to 30,000ft, a malfunction with the
ailerons (the hinged back sections of the wing which help a plane turn) caused
Simpson's Starfighter to pitch straight down and tumble wildly, high above the
ground. Simpson knew he had to get out quickly and pulled the ejector seat
handle at 27,000ft (8.1km).
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