Not only that, but each ejection compresses your spine about an inch. IIRC, fighter pilots have a shelf live of 3 ejections before they’re retired.

No fighters needed, F1 need’s to adopt 90's helicopter tech.

Nope, there have been “zero-zero” seats for years, i.e. zero altitude and/or zero speed.

Thing is, even if for one crack-smoking moment we considered ejection seats to be an option, they are extremely heavy things. Before you know it, you’ve got a behemoth of a race car.

There’s a thing called a “zero-zero” ejection seat: usable at zero altitude, zero airspeed.

Actually, fighter jet ejection seats work perfectly well from the ground. They shoot the pilot up high enough to get a full canopy opened. It’s less than a comfortable experience though.

there are zero-zero ejection seats already, so if they really wanted to (hehehe) they could put one on an F1 car :)

I don’t believe that any modern air force uses, at least for its fighter aircraft (bombers have issues related to crew position layout), ejection seats that are not “zero-zero”, meaning that the occupant can eject safely at zero altitude and zero airspeed. In fact, for a while, there were jokes that the Soviet Union’s…

Couple hundred pounds I’d say. They had to remove them via a crane system on the A-10. The Egress guys did all that work, I just made sure it was pinned before I got in, and unpinned when the pilot came out to the jet.

Tell that to James Bond.

The hood should have a hole with the engine sticking through.

(most?) Modern ejection seats are zero-zero capable; zero speed, zero altitude, but they’d never fit in an F1 car. The posture is all wrong for starters.

Modern ejection seats will work at zero altitude.

yes, zero/zero as in zero speed, zero altitude.

5M does not compute.

Martin Baker Zero-Zero ejection seats. Safely eject from your stricken aircraft at 0 knots and 0 feet, or even under water!

They were invented in the late 60's, but I have no idea what aircraft they are actually installed in, only that they exist.

No there typically isn’t these days. Most modern fighter ejection seats are 0/0. They are capable of a safe ejection sitting on the ground or deck, and at 0 knots (not moving). That being said, there are always injuries associated with an ejection. Sometimes minor, sometimes major back damage or lacerations. It’s…

The ACES II seat, used in most modern USAF fighters, is a 0/0 seat. Meaning it’s rated to perform at 0 feet altitude and 0 mph forward speed. Technically, it would work if engineered into the cars correctly.

Sort of. Ejection seats these days have what I believe is called a “zero-zero” capability. Zero altitude, and zero speed.

Nope, they can be launched from the ground.