To me surf music is the best ever

The way the seat tumbles after the first rocket burns out seems alarming, but nothing seemed to get tangled. The 'pilot' mentions a gun firing (probably the drogue gun intended to both stabilise the seat when falling from altitude, and to start extraction of the parachute (guessing, it's how the Martin-Baker seats with which I am more familiar work), which phase seems to go by very quickly in the zero-zero ejection, this drogue gun may defeat the possible tangling by launching the parachute drogue as far away as possible. Good design work.

Is this guy somewhere mentioned in the Smithsonian NASM?

Amazing that seat could lift his balls to 400'

I got a copy!!

Thanks mate, man I felt like such a dunce. Noticed the screws right before this video and thought... lemme make sure 😅

Sin velocidad, altura e ideas, pero todavía con un as en la manga, un asiento eyectable con capacidad cero cero.

Well my first sensation was an involuntary bowel evacuation Bob. Upon this relief I found myself tumbling through space and another wave as nausea took over.......

Meet Jim. Jim is a half whit that Webber found on the street. Jim has signed his mark on a contract for fame and women. Let’s see how Jim performs.....

Crash helmet check....

While Jim demonstrates the ejection seat lets pause for this message from Mutual of Omaha.

Ok Jim was looking for an early retirement with benefits!!

Balls of steel

Mannequins DONT fly airplanes!

The era of man testing.

i bet they laugh so bad. it's like old school Jackass :D :D

In a warehouse somewhere are the original high resolution high speed negatives.

Ahhhhhh my back!

Now that was so cool 😎 but can they add a Giant Gorilla Ape 🦍 fighting a Dinosaur 🦖 That will be cool!

Martin-Baker had already successfully demonstrated a zero-zero ejection-seat in 1961.

IMO I think the Martin-Baker seats are superior to any American ejection-seat design.

How every pilot feels after a safe ejection... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pNKAdLWksL7Depc.html

Best video ever! I love the bit @00:15 about not remembering how to access the bulbs. That happens to all of us, old guy, esp those who are busy maintaining several cars! Two points: 1) Good of you to note that one doesn't need to remove the trunk trim. 2) Know that many of these Mazda tail light assemblies doesn't just "come right off." There are a couple of pins that require you remove the tail light assembly by pulling it out sideways rather than straight back. So, to do this for the right side assembly as shown, remove the two screws (@01:18) and then, with the butt of your left hand, knock the assembly out to the right. It should pop right off.

I like this!

the aces II can rocket you between 12 to 16gs

Ejection seat test pilot. I wonder who he pissed off to get *that* job.

Hahahahaha the voice thoXD

love it

Fourth guy I remember ginky ,his name was Glen king.

In 1983 I went to work for Webber aircraft in the R&D shop. I was about 26 years old. Great bunch of old men who showed me photos of all the guys from the right stuff. Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin etc. I told these old gentlemen that they were my heroes and they told me to shut up kid. I loved that coming from these fellas. In the back of the shop there was an old Gemini prototype seat just sitting there on the floor. And yes I remember actually sitting in it. These old guys told me about the trailers outside of the shop which held the astronauts for overnight fittings of their personal seats. Three of these guys I will never forget, Don and Ernie and fella named David j David. One of the stories from the R&D shop was that one of the guys out in the storage yard decided to pull the pin on a live ejection seat. It was found a mile and a half away in a liquor store parking lot. I found out later that the guy who pulled the pin turned into the current manager of the R&D shop. Can't remember his name but I remember him going home one day with that prototype Gemini seat.

Jim Hall. What a great jumper he was.

Great sound (and video)!

The dude who starts around 7:20 kills it!

aces

Very cool..was just talking with my 74 year old Uncle last week. He worked for Weber on their ejection seats for the Gemini program. I am a former F-14 Martin-Baker seat specialist so we were comparing notes on the huge differences between both of them.

Damn I wish I lived there! To lay that tribute....heaven!

I don't think you need my permission, but you have it anyway ;-) Unfortunately, when I uploaded, I couldn't upload the entire video, so I had to break it up into two parts. I assume you saw Part 2 where all the action is.

Excellent film,pretty rare.Many thanks.

Yeah!!! Cool, brothers!!! :) cheers from Mexico City!

Amazing!!!!!!!

idiot

Surf's up! :)

@JeffLeites good plan! Or spell it wrong haha. good tune, dude!

This is the copyright police! Im coming after you!!!

I had only seen a little of this before. Thanks for posting! At the time, Weber was located in Burbank and these tests were performed at Hansen Dam recreational area. I was an escape systems design and test engineer with McDonnell-Douglas in the late 80s-early 90s and attended several conferences where I met Jim Hall and a few others in that film.

"I've been kicked in the ass harder than that." - Jim Hall

Man, so many memories of my childhood. Grew up attending a church in Laguna Niguel; the youth leader was Gil's daughter Dawn, and Gil frequently came by to play during and after services. It was an absolute honor, and Gil is a gentleman and a scholar. :-)

grande abraço para todos!!! muito legal o evento

there was no soft ejection with those seats. I bet their backs hurt for weeks after.

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