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The EJECTOR SEAT is found in certain Aircraft such as Jet's and allow's the pilot to bail out of the aircraft safely in the event of an Emergency.
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Solomon Lee Van Meter Jr.how much weight i can carry in continental airline from maryland to houston?
Solomon Van Meter In 1483, in Milan, Italy, Leonardo da Vinci sketched a device that would enable a man “to throw himself down from any great height without sustaining any injury.” In the centuries that followed, many people offered designs for making this imagined device a reality, with varying degrees of success. But in 1910, in Lexington, KY, Solomon Van Meter had an insight while dreaming in front of the fire that would finally bring da Vinci’s idea to life: the first practical backpack parachute.
Solomon Lee Van Meter Jr. was born on April 8, 1888 on a farm near Lexington. He was educated at Miss Collier’s Private School, at Transylvania University, at the University of Iowa, and in England at Oxford University’s Exeter College.
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In 1910, a fatal airplane crash caught the young man’s attention. The pilot of the slowly descending disabled craft apparently had climbed onto the wing to attempt repairs. Parachutes, rare in those days, were attached to the plane itself and probably wouldn’t have helped. Many pilots had died when their chutes became entangled with the very machines they were trying to escape. But as he pondered the death of this particular pilot, Van Meter wondered whether a parachute could be folded and packed for the pilot to wear. He began working on the question, and by the following year had completed his invention.
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His self-contained device featured a revolutionary quick-release mechanism—the ripcord—that allowed a falling aviator to expand the canopy only when safely away from the disabled aircraft. In 1916, based on drawings and models, Van Meter was granted two patents on “inventions for saving the lives of aviators by the use of parachutes.”
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Van Meter joined the Army in 1917 and became one of only three members of his class to be commissioned a first lieutenant in the Corps of Aviation. At Kelly Field in Texas, his instructor wrote four words any pilot would want in his Air Corps logbook: “Cool, consistent, good judgment.”
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Classified a pursuit pilot, Van Meter was assigned to the experimental section of the engineering department. At Wright Field in 1918, a model of his invention was built and successfully tested. The Army expropriated his patents, and the Irving Air Chute Company began building parachutes for the government. Lt. Van Meter was assigned to McCook Field in Dayton, OH to continue work on his invention.
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The major in charge of the project at McCook hoped to obtain a new patent by improving on the original Van Meter design. He knew that Van Meter already held the patents for a manually opened parachute pack, so he prevented the lieutenant from doing any parachute work. The major’s claims were rejected when Van Meter’s Patent Office records were introduced as evidence in a lawsuit, Van Meter v. US, initiated by Van Meter to recover the rights to his invention.
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Although he had been a civilian when he invented the pack parachute, Van Meter was now a member of the military and was barred from suing the government. Doing all his own legal work, he managed to obtain an act of Congress that allowed him to file the lawsuit. He was successful, and the courts awarded him compensation for parachutes already built under the expropriated patents as well as fees for future patent use.
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At West Point on June 14, 1926, Lt. Van Meter made a demonstration jump to prove the workability of his original parachute, in part to validate his original patent claim. When Lois, his wife of two years, returned home that day, she found her husband in the bath, soaking a sprained ankle while the phone rang off the hook with congratulations from his fellow officers. Only then did Van Meter realize that he had proven his invention. The self-contained, manually opened device truly was “the Van Meter parachute.”
An outstanding aviator as well as an accomplished inventor, Van Meter was a bomber pilot before bombers even existed. When General Billy Mitchell wanted to prove that bombs dropped from an airplane could sink a warship, Van Meter piloted one of the planes. He scored a direct hit, sinking a captured German destroyer by dropping a bomb right down the stack.
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In addition to the self-contained parachute, Van Meter invented what later became the ejection seat. Another invention was a device to separate the crew cabin from an endangered plane and safely parachute it down. The F-111 and other aircraft have used a similar method of crew rescue.
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Van Meter eventually retired from the military with the rank of captain, returning with his family to Lexington. He died there at the age of 49, leaving his wife and three children, with a fourth on the way.
the idea has been around for almost 100 years.
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more importantly advances like that are not made by a person.
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no ONE invented the ejection seat. a TEAM at Saab made one of the first effective ones, as did a TEAM from Heinkel.
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An ejection system was tested in late 1912, at Issy-les-Moulineaux near Paris by Baron d'Odkolek. A parachuted dummy was extracted by a small cannon launched parachute from an aircraft in flight. The system also included a rudimentary skirt spreader gun to rapidly expand the parachute to full open. (Skirt spreaders are in use on some seats today, including the Stencel S-III-S used in the AV-8A and AV-8B Harriers.)I'm not sure exactly. However, there's only one company making these seats today and that's Martin Baker. For a fascinating history of their work, suggest you go to www.martinbaker.com to get the entire story of the ejection seat.
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Yes, it was the same person who left the SEAT up in the bathroom.Another question on vapor trails for a friend out there:?
I saw that Dornier Do.335 , WW2 German heavy fighter was equipped with an ejection seat. I think that this may be one of the first operative applications of ejection seat, in fact fighters during ww2 usually had no ejection seat. but i don't know much more about the first experiments and when they started....Why do you want to be a commercial pilot? is it really for passion for flying?
Don;t know who invented the first one, but I have invented a modern one to stop thieves stealing my car. When set it has a needle in the seat and when sat on sets off a tape recorder with, Welcome To The Aids Club.What is the fuel consumption of a typical passenger jet - like a 747?
Q did for 007 back in the 60'sThere is no single inventor credited with the Ejector Seat. Martin-Baker started researching the concept (self contained ejection module/chair) in 1934 but SAAB and Heinkel making it practical. He-280 is the first aircraft to be fitted with one in 1941.
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Its the higher velocities of the Jet aircrafts that necessitated the bang seat.
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BTW, someone earlier stated that Martin-Baker is the only manufacturer of the ejection seats. That is not quite true, there are more than one including the Russian Zvezda which makes the K-36 seats thats the most advanced one in existence.
The first ejection seats were developed independently during the second world war by Heinkel and SAAB. Early models were powered by compressed air and the first aircraft to be fitted with such a system was the Heinkel He 280 prototype jet fighter in 1941.
Today, the biggest Ejection seat Company is Martin-Baker. Martin-Baker has supplied approximately 69,000 ejection seats of which 19,000 are currently in service. Around 7,000 – 10% of the total delivered – have been used by aircrew to abandon aircraft.
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Today, in the RAF at least, If an ejection seat is used in anger, a "crate" of beer is bought by the pilot involved and given to the Weapon Technicians as a thank you for maintaining the seat correctly and the pilot recieves a Martin-Baker tie from the company. Also, an individual is only allowed to eject from an aircraft 3 times in his/her life, as the act of ejection causes the spine to permanently compress a little. (which makes him/her visably shorter.)
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This website explains the history of the ejector seat and date etc!
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The first commercially produced and reliable seat was produced by Martin Baker. Early seats were powered by a cartridge, rather like a big rifle shell and injuries were common if the seat posture was incorrect at the point of ejection. Those seats were commonly limited to minimum height and airspeeds for effective functioning. Seats from the early seventies used a rocket device that was much more progressive; hence ejections these days are less likely to cause lasting back problems. These seats are generally termed zero/zero i.e. can be used from when the aircraft is sitting on the apron up to high subsonic speed.How Brazil take a control of air traffic, the pilots flying blind and crash each other?
I agree with Sparviero, Dornier 335 Pfeil (arrow) a twin inline heavy fighter.It had a prop in the rear and a cruciform tail.That is why they had an ejector seat.Nov.1944 first production aircraft.
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Martin Baker,they were experimenting on it in the closing stages of the war.Jet fuel tax in UK- is it true?
i know martin baker makes them as a friend of mine ejected from a Tornado GR4 and recieved a Martin Baker Tie.More Questions & Answers ...
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