XB-42 Mixmaster
 

Don't remember seeing this before...

XB-42 Mixmaster


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And change the C of G massively in the process...

That's hardly going to concern anyone baling out, is it?

It might do if there was a sudden nose-down pitch.

A bit of negative G to help you on your way???

I do not know what type of seat the aeroplane had.

If it was equipped with a face-blind handle only (which I suspect) it could possibly make it difficult to pull under negative g.

This problem killed a friend and colleague of mine - he could not pull the handle.

First flew '44, last flew '47 - unlikely to have had any sort of ejection seat.

I am not sure, but ejection seats were fitted from the late 1940s and the first American live ejection was in 1946.

edit: I think you are correct. Why else were they fitted with a prop and gearbox jettison system.

What I love about this H&N section is discovering aircraft one has never heard of or seen before, so thanks Nige321 for this one...and with the bonus of the DC-8 Skybus. What a remarkable beast that would have been.

As an aside worth noting that the WW2 vintage Do-335 had an ejector seat and explosive bolts on the rear propeller and dorsal fin mounts. In his book Wings on My Sleeve, Eric Brown describes the loss of a 335 at Farnborough post war caused by a fire burning through the flight controls.

And I know an aeroplane which Winkle flew but few people know that he did.

Come on dook, that's teasing!

Zaunkoenig?

maybe he moonlighted for Ryanair?????