How Ejection Seats Work
How Ejection Seats Work
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When the Jet Age came about, pilots found they had a brand
new problem with their brand new planes: how to bale out when they found
themselves in a pinch at 700 mph. In the mid-1940s, aerospace engineers got to work coming up with a fascinating and complex lifesaving device, the ejection
seat.