Haha. Just saw all the replies. Guess I’m not the only know-it-all who watches too much YouTube.
I don't know what i'm doing and neither does anybody else
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Modern ejection seats are designed for “zero zero” operation. Zero altitude, and zero airspeed.
What would you ever use it for, except an interplanetary launch? The Delta II and Shuttle used it for GTO injection, and you’re so massive a Centaur can’t do that for you, carrying one of these really won’t help much. I can't believe they would use one of these as a kick motor. That just seems too high a risk of…
They may die yeah, but then again, maybe not!
Neo fighting the Agent Smiths while spinning round some kinda pole immediately springs to mind!
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Actually zero/zero ejection seats do exist.
Most E seats are zero speed, zero altitude.
Read about zer0-zero ejection seats (0-0 standing for zero speed-zero altitude)
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.
1. What’s the 747 of supercars?
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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.
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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.