Originally Posted by
tartare
Fascinated to read about past experimentation with seats designed to fly away from the scene of the ejection - Rollo wing etc - so as to avoid capture by hostiles.
There's nowt new under the sun...
Thanks Tartare - I was utterly amazed at some of the experimental seat-escape system development which went on during Vietnam. I think one of my faves was the Stratos Corp Escape system, which basically transformed the post-ejection seat into a microlight-type contraption. The engineering must have been astonishing. Though interestingly, one must have needed basic flying skills, which not all back-seaters would have possessed.
But it's certainly the type of 'contraption' some of us would have been delighted to try out in 1991.....
