How Ejection Seats Work

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2013

⏱️ 41 minutes

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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 bail 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 comple

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1:07.8	Well because Goose died because his ejection seed malfunction.
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