[HN Gopher] Martin-Baker Ejection Seat Made Its First of 7,722 S...
___________________________________________________________________
Martin-Baker Ejection Seat Made Its First of 7,722 Saves 75 Years
Ago Today
Author : vinnyglennon
Score : 14 points
Date : 2024-06-12 22:04 UTC (55 minutes ago)
(HTM) web link (www.twz.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.twz.com)
| echelon wrote:
| Over 100 successful ejections per year? That's wild! That sounds
| like an awful lot of hull losses. And how many people weren't
| saved?
|
| What's the risk calculus look like for a plane with an ejection
| seat vs. a plane without one? War obviously has one risk profile,
| but military vehicles and their operation differ wildly from day
| to day commercial operation.
| taspeotis wrote:
| Probably some years with much higher numbers due to wars that
| would skew the average.
| netsharc wrote:
| I thought they have a monopoly on ejection seats, but I've
| found at least 1 other manufacturer:
| https://www.collinsaerospace.com/what-we-do/industries/milit...
|
| Martin Baker's website is a bit wild, you can join their "tie
| club", but to do so you need to have ejected using their seat:
| https://martin-baker.com/tie-club/
|
| And they list the ejections they know of https://martin-
| baker.com/ejection-notices/ , but the records are a bit
| jumbled, the latest entries include ejections in the past that
| they've discovered, and they don't all have dates, even
| "Someone successfully ejected today". Today when, man?!
| fckgw wrote:
| You can even buy a special watch with colored case that
| signifies you ejected from an aircraft (using a Martin-Baker
| Ejection Seat of course)
|
| https://martin-baker.com/watches/mb-i/
| netsharc wrote:
| And since these companies probably don't sell to Russia,
| Russia has their own manufacturer:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPP_Zvezda . Interestingly
| Collins' origin seem to be seats designed by Zvezda: https://
| archive.is/www.nytimes.com/1998/12/02/nyregion/metro...
| Ichthypresbyter wrote:
| >Over 100 successful ejections per year? That's wild! That
| sounds like an awful lot of hull losses.
|
| I remember calculating a few years ago that _more than 10% of
| the ejector seats sold by Martin-Baker have been used to
| eject_.
|
| Military aircraft operations, even in peacetime, are much more
| dangerous than the vast majority of civilian fixed-wing flight
| (except airshows/racing and maybe cropdusting). I don't know
| how much of that difference is the flight profile being
| inherently more dangerous (closer to terrain), and how much is
| it being harder on the aircraft.
___________________________________________________________________
(page generated 2024-06-12 23:00 UTC)