Fully autonomous stealth fighter demonstration in Charleston today

[MikeD]

Does someone who ejects have to go into an aircraft that’s doesn’t have an ejection seat? Like is spinal compression bad enough that a second ejection would be no bueno?

Also, do you get to keep the seat or get a tie from Martin Baker?

Always wondered

Depends on if any injuries sustained.

 

[///AMG]

Does someone who ejects have to go into an aircraft that’s doesn’t have an ejection seat? Like is spinal compression bad enough that a second ejection would be no bueno?

Also, do you get to keep the seat or get a tie from Martin Baker?

Always wondered

Like Mike said, I suppose in the event that there was some sort of permanent back/spine injury. That isn't real common in my seat at least. The only people I can think of who had those sorts of injuries were too broken to fly anything afterwards. Don't get to keep the seat, but I have heard about the tie thing as well. There is also a special Bremont watch that you can purchase with a unique red barrel to signify the event. Only folks who have ejected can buy it.

 

[///AMG]

Plenty of pilots have ejected as a result of pilot error without significant impact on their career. As you know, it all depends.

Yeah absolutely this too

 

[BobDDuck]

Does someone who ejects have to go into an aircraft that’s doesn’t have an ejection seat?

I flown with a former F4 driver who had two ejections from the plane within a few years.

 

[derg]

I flown with a former F4 driver who had two ejections from the plane within a few years.

I flew with a Vietnam vet that not only got shot down in a O-1, but F-4 as well.

He had resources in the F-4 but he said the worst was the O-1 because he lived because of luck but dangled in the tree canopy for a day with parts of the wreckage and would hear "too much ******* Vietnamese at night because they were looking for me"

 

[CFI A&P]

Also have flown with someone that punched out in a Martin-Baker seat, it didn’t seem to slow down their career at all.