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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...altitude bailout has almost always meant quick death for the aircraft pilot. Last week the Navy successfully tested a British low-altitude ejection seat that may become the American military pilot's best friend. See SCIENCE, "Positively Wizard...
Fully 94% of the Navy's pilots who have to bail out below 1,000 ft. during landings and take-offs are killed because they do not have time to get out of their planes and open their parachutes. Last week the Navy gave a spectacular demonstration of a British ejection seat that may become the American carrier pilot's best friend: even at minimum altitudes the seat automatically ejects the pilot and opens his chute...
Whistling at 140 m.p.h. down a runway at the U.S. Naval Air Test Center on Maryland's Patuxent River, a Grumman F9F-8T fighter-trainer barely had its nose wheel off the concrete when a short, stocky R.A.F. officer riding in the seat behind the pilot got the signal to bail out. Flying Officer Sidney Hughes reached above his head and yanked a handle. The pull snapped down a black curtain (to protect his face from wind blast) and fired three cartridges beneath his seat. Half a second after Hughes was catapulted straight out of the plane, another cartridge...
Secretary of the Navy Thomas S. Gates Jr. and his flight-safety experts were delighted at the first live trial of the Martin-Baker ejection seat in this country (it has been successfully tried once in England-TIME, Sept. 19. 1955), hopefully predicted that the device would cut pilot fatality rates. Last year more than half the Navy's 277 pilot fatalities stemmed from take-offs or landings. "At the end of the runway, if something goes wrong, the pilot up to now has been helpless," said Rear Admiral Thurston B. Clark, commander of the test center. "We tell...
...slowing down just a little. It was enough. He beat the Senators 6-0, threw only 85 pitches, walked only two men and finished the first no-hit, no-run game of the 1957 season. ¶ Although she wasted 40 valuable minutes of swimming time searching for her pilot boat in the chilling waters of the English Channel, Danish-born Greta Anderson Sonnichsen, 30, now a California housewife, showed more speed and stamina than any of the other 23 men and women entered in the international mass swim from France to England. She made it from Cape Gris...