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Back to: "E"ejection seat
- Sinônimos
- ejector seat
- Definição1
- A seat, normally fitted on combat aircraft, that permits the occupant to be ejected out of the vehicle in the case of any serious emergency that necessitates abandoning the vehicle. The seat is ejected by an explosive charge (i.e., cartridge or rocket). The occupant is separated from the seat normally automatically or, in some cases, manually. The parachute, thereafter, deploys at a preset height.
- Fonte1
- KUMAR, Bharat (ed.). An illustrated dictionary of aviation. New York: McGraw-Hill, c2005. 752 p.
- Fonte2
- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION; INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION. IAMSAR manual: international aeronautical and maritime search and rescue manual. Volume II: mission co-ordination. 3rd ed. Montréal, 2013. (Doc. 9731).
- Fonte3
- INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION. Circular 315: hazards at aircraft accident sites. Montreal, 2007. (Cir. 315-AN/179)
- Contexto
- Many military aircraft are fitted with ejection seats and other hazardous material, e.g., bombs or chemicals.
- Subárea
- Aircraft
- Related Term
- ejection
- Spanish
- asiento eyectable
- Imagem
United States Air Force F-15 Eagle ejection seat test using a mannequin.
