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Old 17th Feb 2015, 15:32
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Four Wings
 
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In 1956 during my National Service the Army sent me on a firefighting course at Kent Fire Brigade. One item of training was how to remove the pilot from a crashed jet fighter. They had a dummy Martin Baker set up on which we learnt what not to touch and how to disarm the ejector.

We were also taught about the MiG 15, I think from photos. The Russian ejector was described as highly dangerous, and whilst we were taught a theoretical safe way for removing the pilot, the unofficial advice was "leave him there if you don't want to eject with him".
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