The MB10 N is a fully automated lightweight ejection seat.
designed for a safe ejection at any altitude between 0 and 50,000 ft, a
bank till 70 degrees and speeds ranging from 0 to a maximum of 600 kts.
Here's how the ejection process
works.
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0.00 sec Ejection Initiated
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0.25 sec Rocket ignition. Emergency oxygen on.
Limb restraint complete. Aircraft IFF activated. (See
IFF operation)
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0.45 sec The Rocket Motor burns out
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0.50 sec Drogue gun fires
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1.00 sec Stabilization
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1.50 sec Parachute Deployment N < 3g
H < 5000 m
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2.65 sec Parachute fully deployed, locater beacon
activated. Life raft auto inflation armed.
Webmasters Note: While I was in the
Navy I took a High Altitude and Ejection Seat Training for the
TA-4 Skyhawk.
Look
at the times above. We watched several
movies on the ejection seat process, then, the narrator on the film said
these photos, which looked at a believable speed, were slowed down, we
will now see the ejection sequence at the actual speed. It was
unbelievably
fast. The actual sequence was so fast that it looked like it was a photo
off of some stupid movie where the director wasn't paying attention to
the speed effects. The times above explain how fast the pilot actually
leaves the aircraft. Also, not mentioned above, this seat is said
to have a Zero, Zero, capability. The pilot is safe to eject at Zero
MPH and Zero Altitude.
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