Great terminology! "Bird", "goofed", and "he buys the farm"! :D

I'd seen those videos before, but never realized how truly amazing were the feats of ejection performed by those seats. Wow.

"The best decisions about 'when to go' are made in the pilot's lounge." A recent airshow collision between an AD-1 Skyraider and a P-51 Mustang demonstrates this. The P-51 got smacked from underneath by the Skyraider. From the time of impact to the time the pilot left the aircraft was the amount of time needed to physically release the canopy and bail out plus the neurological time needed to think, "BAD THING! GO!" No thinking, just reaction. Live pilot.

THIS IS AWSOME!! I love your vids AIRBOYD!! Greetings from HOLLAND

Love these old training films!! Thanks for posting.

Back in my era, the early '60s, you sat on a 20mm cannon shell (w/ just the propellant) and this resulted in a shock to the spine when you went out. Some died because they didn't separate from the seat and pull the D ring. Others died because of design. The first 13 to punch out of an F-102 hit the tail and died. I flew the F-104 C/D with downward ejection, made that way to keep people from hitting the tail on the way out. After a Korean War ace, Ivan KInchelow, died ejecting downward immediately after T/O, the AF went to upward ejection, but while downward ejection was in vogue it felt sexy as hell walking out to the plane with spurs on. While you were strapping in you pulled cables with a ball on the end from under the sear and inserted them into the back of the spurs. This prevented your legs from flopping upward if you ejected.

The pilot of the F-4 in scene 1 was my good friend Pete Pilcher.

And I meant to add Thanks for posting this and the memories it brings back!

I love these videos, they get a couple hundred views, but know, that they are viewed with love and appreciation for aviation! Thank you very much!

The number one rule of thumb in Aviation- What you DON'T know.... Won't hurt you.... it will KILL you!

This is a great video to link to in all the military crash videos. Everyone always says in the comments "Why didn't he eject!!!" and you can just link back to this. I always wondered why some people didn't eject until this, now its easy to see. THANKS FOR THE UPLOAD! Very interesting and insightful!

Best site on the web...thanks so much for these uploads!!

love these old videos =)

I can assure you the canopy would've been MILES behind that jet after the air blast caught it. All of these years later, I find myself wishing CHARLIE would've been the one that ejected!

these videos never fail to make my day

Not sure about that but I've heard each ejection does compress your spine permanently. I believe two ejections will ground you from flying in the military or they will reassign you to helicopters or another model that doesn't have ejection seats due to what could happen to your body if it had to endure a third ejection..

Air Boyd is always good stuff.

Of course it’s a quality upload, it’s Airboyd! Good to crash into you again.

My goodness! I remember seeing this in the Air Force in 1981! It was outdated then. (Uniforms had changed and f-105's were loooooong gone!)

Thanks great vid!

Great video!!!! The best training video for Turkish air force becouse Greek air force have total superiority over the Greek sea Aegean!!!!

Thanks for the interesting information. Cheers.

In answer to the question"What caused the F4 in the opening sequence to crash" according to Tony Gaunt in"2016/11.lecture The History and Development of Martin Baker" it was FOD , a spanner (Wrench) left in the cockpit, allowing the stick to be pulled back, but then NOT pushed forward!

Glad this was all Automatic! Was like a kick in the ass and the next thing you know you were hanging under that beautiful Canopy!

Alright I'm ready to fly now, got my training in.

@will891410 The early F-104 had a downward track(bottom ejecting) ejection seat. 2 of the ejections seats on a B-52 eject from the bottom as well.

Useful information!

The poster of this video has listed it as dated 1969, but the introduction page is dated 1947.

@James Horak, Looks to be from March AFB and not Pensacola.

I kept slapping the side of the TV to get better picture. It used to work.

Good stuff a man should know.

9:38 Jesus crist thats some force involved there.. thats insane!

gotta love this educational movie...

Yea, you have to move the two attennas around or move the black and white closer to window for better reception

old is gold lol

"Unless he has more than 600 feet airspace, ... he buys the farm." :P

i use to fix tvs, and that allways worked for me lolol

I am getting Deja vu. I swear I have seen this exact video before!

great music

Its a fact as well. And due to the force involved you are only allowed to eject 2 or 3 times from an airplane and after that you are actually permantly grounded (dont think this will go for every airplane but in the airforce you are done) because you could damage your spine if you would eject again.

Great video. too bad better quality was not available

7:35 Turn on subtitles :D Beer can keep you in that airplane too long.

martin baker people claimed that after pulling the handle your body experiences 18G going up i wonder what it must have been for the first OXCART test pilot who punched out downward he made it alive though once thing for sure repeating the procedure doesn't hurt repetition is the best way to learn things whether you're a musician or a pilot or else

Good vectors for survive

That's for the older blasting-cap style Russian seats. I believe it's more like 4 or 5 for US seats and the possibly more for the newer Russian seats.

I guess Goose and Maverick were screwing around in a bar somewhere when they showed this one.

@will891410 Blades blasted away by special charges right before ejection, its part of the process.

@bajesus666 I'm pretty sure it's the same principle, I see no way why it could've changed, I play the DCS A-10C simulator which is the same that the US Air Force uses, and thanks to that video, I survived twice from a battle damaged A-10C. First ejection was simple. Both wings teared off, time to punch out. Second one, was more complicated. I had only one wing teared off, and before my first ejection I had stabilized with one wing. But this time It didn't worked and I punched out 1 second short.

Trig at its best!

You need to press 'Tracking' on the vcr to clear out the 'snow.'

I bet all of you did not know it was a Irish man..John Martin who invented the ejection seat back in the 1940s !

5:34, 100 cruising alongside 105 on bomb run. 100 catches fire. Hit by shockwave? Looks like the thud caught a little of it, too, but judged it slightly better since he dropped them. Or am I talking out of my butt?

It does...

Music by NFL Films.

wow look how long the f-4 take to go down such powerful engines!

Very instructive! But at 14:27 with a 90° Roll there could be a upward ejection vector if you're sitting on a Russian Zvezda K-36 ejection seat: Gyros + thrust vectoring which saved many Russian pilots including this one /watch?v=dz4gLrPsCYQ or these two /watch?v=Yh-kuztsE1s

I laughed heartily at your comment because it's true.

Im practicing to prolong my ejections as long as posible !

Got the Vector,, Victor E.G

@will891410 yeah,you would hit the blades

If a band's name were to be Ejection Vectors what would they play?

12:20 the first "@" of the video history...

Picked up the remains of a RIO that was ground ejected with his restraints unsecured. Was not pretty...

I wonder if a similar kind of these educational vids still exist in the era of the highly advanced ACES II system? ._.

The thing I DON'T want to do for sure, is to eject. I DO want to fly....

I watched the whole video...but i don't know why I did that lol

4 - 5 times more?! This in the vid would be more then enough, i mean they don´t need to be sent into orbit..

CHECK THE "TRACKING" ON YOUR VHS PLAYER

...where I can buy a helmet liner like the one the F-4 pilot puts on...?

why did i watch this.............

two words FLAT SPIN

does anyone know the base where those two bailed out of the navy F4 at the beginning of the video? was that NAS Penscola FL ?

if the pilot loss control?

3:19 Baby needs sleepy...

I give them to Nail Erdogan and i said him to bring them to your home but....an R550 magic stuck in his ... and he go for swimming!!! By the way why you do not learn your pilots swimming?

So... my ad served up to me was.... cremation services for the Armed Forces... "this can cause reimbursement expenses" : WTF > ?

...it's a "a-pilots-cabin"...

So are military aviators stigmatized by their colleagues and chain of command if they've had to eject b/c of pilot error, thus perhaps negatively incentivizing them into delaying ejection whilst hoping to recover the bird, or have enough of those poor bastards died as a result of delaying egress that pilots aren't bothered by the delay-effect and they make rational decisions about when to get out? Thx...

my respect to Mathematics

lol

Higher quality version: watch?v=Oxi_rqAW9vM

Would be much better without blur-filter!

That's a vector Victor.

Anyway much less than not eject?

Navy Wings are made of gold. USAF wings are made of steel. Gold is denser then steel. Heavier. So gold fals to earth faster. I thought gravity affects Navy aircraft more then USAF airframes.

what the freak,how do you pull up vertically in a jet like hat (unless it is an F-22 Raptor)

FIRST AGAIN

helicopters cant eject o.O

How many airplanes did they had to destroy just to test those ejectors? All thanks to the tax payers.