News in Brief: Ejector Seat.
News in Brief: Ejector Seat.
Clip: 351878_1_1
Year Shot: 1952
(Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1573
Original Film: 025-551-03
HD: N/A
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Timecode: 05:44:29 - 05:45:26
News in Brief: Ejector Seat. The U.S. Navy unveils its latest pilot safety device - an ejector seat that crashes the pilot through a plexi-glass canopy for a distance of sixty-five feet. Close shot of Navy pilot in plane, the hatch coming down to close the plane. Men load a dummy into the seat of a plane. Interesting shot of a man standing with large number cards (maybe 4 feet tall), and he flips them down so that it's a countdown: 5,4,3,2,1, FIRE. Slow motion of dummy ejecting in ejector seat, flying through the air into a safety net. They don't explain how the pilot is supposed to survive the fall after ejecting!