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  1. May 21, 2015 · 21 May 2015. By Paul Marks,Features correspondent. Martin-Baker. (Credit: Martin-Baker) With a bang and a roar, ejector seats in planes have saved thousands of lives. Paul Marks charts their...

  2. If you are riding down the road fast and flip that switch, it is absolutely an ejector seat.

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  5. Dec 15, 2015 · 8 Answers. Sorted by: 43. In a word, yes. There is a switch which controls this and the default position is "both". If any handle is pulled (pull down over the face or the one between your legs), then both seats fire. If solo, the switch is turned to "solo" so that the rear seat is not ejected and the front seat gets to leave a little bit quicker.

  6. Jul 22, 2015 · Not long after the Germans started using ejection seats, the trend began to spread. Just a year after the Heinkel debuted, the Swedish SAAB company created an ejector seat technology for one of ...

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  7. Jul 21, 2015 · The ejector seat! In a split second decision, you reach for the emergency trigger and deploy it. Within seconds you are violently rocketing into the sky, until the parachute that was...

  8. Jun 13, 2018 · Ejection seats have saved lives right up to the very edge of space. On April 16, 1975, Captain Jon T. Little was knocked out while ejecting from a Lockheed U-2R spyplane over the Pacific at 65,000 feet and 470 mph. Unconscious, he fell 50,000 feet before his parachute automatically deployed.

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