The capsule was pressurized, sheltered the pilot from the airstream, and contained food and survival supplies. It was developed by the Stanley Aviation Company for Convair. The first production aircraft with an escape crew capsule was the Mach 2 B-58 Hustler. The Bell X-2, designed for flight in excess of Mach 3, could jettison the cockpit, though the pilot would still have to jump out and descend under his own parachute. It was tested in 1951-52 but was never installed in the aircraft. The first American attempt to design such an escape capsule was for the U.S. Pioneering developments in jettisonable-cockpit style escape capsule systems occurred in Nazi Germany. They had a single capsule "roughly the size of a mini-van" for all four crew members.
Three of the four Rockwell B-1A prototypes also used cabin ejection. The General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark used cabin ejection where both side-by-side seats were in a single 3000 lb (1360 kg) capsule. The B-58's capsule had a control stick, a bottle of oxygen, and a drogue chute. A cabin ejection for the XB-70 Valkyrie was also tested. The Convair B-58 Hustler Mach 2 bomber and North American XB-70 Valkyrie Mach 3 bomber prototype had individual encapsulated seats. military aircraft that have escape crew capsules are: The occupant remains encapsulated and protected until such time as the external environment is suitable for direct exposure or the capsule reaches the ground.Įjecting individual crew capsules (one for each pilot/crew member) or "capsule ejection"Įjecting the entire crew cabin, or "cabin ejection" Wikipedia license: /licenses/by-sa/3.0/Īn escape crew capsule is an escape capsule that allows one or more occupants of an aircraft or spacecraft to escape from the craft while it is subjected to extreme conditions, such as high speed or altitude. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).Įn./wiki/Escape_crew_capsule Originally a public domain film, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied. Support this channel: /jeffquitney OR /jeffquitney
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