ACES Seat
At an event at IWM Duxford I had a long and informative chat about the ACES seat (These guys were from Lakenheath, so I'm assuming this is the seat in the F-15C/D/E).
IIRC the ACES (II)? seat has a kind of pitot tube which is able to distinguish the 'vector' present closely before the moment of ejection and hence the seat acts accordingly-i.e. the seat will adopt a different ejection profile if you eject low and slow to if you are high and fast (seems to make sense to me)-I think 3 different 'profiles' were mentioned...
Is this correct, and if so does MB's latest seat have a similar option?
Incidentally I also learned that the F-14 had an MB seat in it (the gentlemen were pretty scathing of some of the cockpit sequences and shots in Top Gun).