Ejection seat of a jet plane.

An ejection seat operated by rocket motor. (Swedish: raketstol) Many of us have watched movies in which a pilot ejects from a crashing fighter aircraft. This is a real ejection seat, although an old one(my guess: late 1960s/early 1970s) and was fitted in the (now defunct) SAAB 37 Viggen. Mechanism A charge of gunpowder raised … Continue reading Ejection seat of a jet plane.