Title: Everything You Need to Know About Ejecting From a Fighter Jet
Headings: Everything You Need to Know About Ejecting From a Fighter Jet
Everything You Need to Know About Ejecting From a Fighter Jet
A Fire Under Your Ass
Hiccups
Come on Down

Content: bailout! bailout!" A U.S. airman goes through ejection training, including a VR-style simulation where you pretend to parachute to the ground, running through the post-ejection checklist as you go. Jay Bennett
Each pilot, co-pilot, or weapons systems officer wears a large parachute and harness that buckles into the seat of their aircraft. When you pull one or both of the two levers positioned on the sides of the seat, charges fire to blow the aircraft canopy and then rocket boosters under your ass take the whole seat, with you in it, up and out of the jet. Within seconds you should be floating over the falling aircraft with a parachute canopy fluttering over your head. In newer two-seat jets, the ejection seats are synchronized so activating one triggers the other. But in the older T-38, each person needs to take care of himself or herself. The co-pilot sitting in the rear seat needs to go first—otherwise the rockets from the pilot's seat will burn the person sitting behind. After you fly out, the seat itself falls away.