discussion Ejector seats.

[Guest]

Quick Q&A dose the canopy eject off before the ejector seat shoots out on the sea harrier.


John

 

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The canopy on the sea harrier has a detonation cord wired in the plexiglass that shatters the canopy split seconds before the seat fires. Hope this helps , cheers tony

 

[Guest]

The canopy on the sea harrier has a detonation cord wired in the plexiglass that shatters the canopy split seconds before the seat fires. Hope this helps , cheers tony

Yep helps a lot Tony thanks very much for your kind help.


John

 

[stona]

The so called 'detcord' is visible here:


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In this video of a rather expensive c*ck up at Kandahar you can't see the canopy break a fraction of a second before the pilot makes his sharp exit, but you can see that the canopy is not jettisoned.

"After an uneventful two aircraft sortie their landing back at Kandahar, Afghanistan was held off by ten minutes due to a busy circuit. When cleared to land ATC requested an expedite landing and runway clearance due to heavy traffic.


The wingman landed first due to low fuel but received a hostile missile alert and released flares. ZG478's turn onto finals was too short and 6,500ft higher than normal. Throughout the approach the rate of descent was too high and 'Hover Stop' was selected in an attempt to correct this.


At 180ft full power was selected but the tail struck the ground 30ft from the threshold. The outriggers and main undercarriage collapsed as did the nose wheel when the aircraft pitched forward. The under wing stores (bombs, rockets, recce pod, targeting pod and drop tanks) caught fire as it slid along the runway for 4,000ft. During the slide the pilot turned the aircraft away from a formation of four aircraft waiting to take off then ejected when it came to a stand. The fire spread to engulf the whole aircraft."


Cheers


Steve

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OUCH!