When a fighter jet gets shot how do you eject? is it like A RED BUTTON?

Question

When a fighter jet gets shot how do you eject? is it like A RED BUTTON?

Answer 1

Depends on the seat. Usually two handles these days. One overhead, the other between the legs. That way with an injury one may be better than the other.

Answer 2

A couple of yellow handles.

Answer 3

a red handle bar like the top of a shovel betwwen your legs

Answer 4

Depends on the seat:

Martin-Baker's  had two loops above the seat, a handle between the legs, and another handle on the side.  

ACES-II seats have the handle between the legs.

I used to get asked at airshows, "which one would you use?"  "The first one I grab."

The Face-curtain primarily went away because under high-G situations, it's d**n near impossible to raise your arms enough to grab the handle and pull.

Finally in two-seat aircraft, one can alter the ejection sequence, so both can go together (with a small delay); or each goes separately.

There's some great video of an F14 coming back with its canopy blown off.  Pilot was giving an incentive ride to a guy, who was using the ejection handle to HANG ON TO.  Apparently, they did some light negative G stuff and bang, no more passenger....he had a clean ejection-even though he was not positioned properly-they recovered him right away.

Answer 5

If there's one thing I learned from Bugs Bunny, this it is. The only thing on the entire instrument panel is a giant red button that says eject. You mash it as hard as you can, several dozen times, and just before the plane hits the ground, you eject and smash into the ground. The plane will stop in mid air. I think the lesson learned here is to never ever eject.

Answer 6

On most seats, there is a pair of handles above the head that look like mickey mouse ears. Pulling them down now only initiates the ejection, but also pulls a face shield down over the pilots head to help protect him/her from the relative wind. In addition, there is usually another handle located either on the side of the seat, or between the pilots legs, which when pulled up, initiates the ejection sequence as well.

If you want to get even further into it, right after pulling the handle, before anything else happens, an explosive charge will blow off the canopy as seen in a lot of fighters like the F18, F16, the F22 and whatnot. In some aircraft, most notably the av8b (harrier) you will notice the explosive charge in a ring around the pilots head, which blows a hole in the canopy for the seat to exit through.

Answer 7

There are usually two over the shoulder straps that the pilot will pull, which ejects the seat he or she sits on.

Answer 8

My experience is on older fighters (F-111A's, F-4D's).

The F-4's had a Martin-Baker design seat. There was 2 loops over the pilots head. Grab and pull down, and a curtain/cover would cover face. (You can see similar in "TOP GUN", when they eject and Goose gets killed).

Or, there was a triangular shaped ring between his thighs he could pull up on.

Or, there was a grip by the right outer thigh that would pivot up.

Any of these would initiate the egress sequence.

An excellent site is:

http://www.ejectionsite.com/f4seat.htm

Answer 9

The face curtain (handles over the head) is a Martin-baker seat.  The ACES II had a yellow handle between the pilot's legs that you pulled with a motion similar to a two-armed curl in weight lifting.

Some also have handles on the sides of the seats, some even older have handles and triggers (like the recently grounded T-38s).