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How Ejection Seats Work

How Ejection Seats Work

Stuff You Should Know

August 20, 201337m 35s

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Show Notes

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 complex lifesaving device, the ejection seat.

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