ESCAPE APPARATUS EJECTS PILOT FROM PLANE
LONDON, August 31. When testing new escape apparatus, a man was ejected from a Gloster Meteor jet lighter travelling at over 500 miles an liour at • 12,000 feet over Oxfordsliire. "Nowhere in the world," savs the Times, "had anybodv before been ejected from an aeroplane flying so fast." The man was Bernard Lvnch, an employee of tlie Dlartin-Baker Air- . craft Company, of Denham, Bucking-
hamshire. Lyneh used the pilot-cjecting seat invented by Mr. James Martin, the head of the iirm. The piiol, after jettisoning tlie cockpit cover, pulls a blind over his face. This lircs a cartridge, which ejects him, still sitting in his seat, clear of the aeroplane and protects his face from the rusli of air as he is liurled upwards. A static Hue linked to tlie seat operates a switch inside the cockpit, when the pilot is safely away from the aircraft, releases a drogue, which keeps tlie seat steadv in midair. Eiglit seconds after the drogue has been pulled ont, a paracliute attached to the seat is released automatically. When the pilot is clear of the plane, he pulls his own paracliute ripeord to desceud normally. Today 's test was completely succoscs1 ful.
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Chronicle (Levin), 2 September 1947, Page 6
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