softrun wrote:
That video is really hard to watch due to its very high speed of changing scenes. Is the ejection really that fast or is the whole thing sped up?
They have to be very fast. I assume the seats are what are called 0-0 seats, which means they can safely eject at 0 speed and 0 altitude. This means that the seats need to eject the person very quickly so that they can be ejected high enough so that when they come back down, the parachute has time to open. Also, they need to be fast enough that if the plane is moving at high speed, the person is not ejected and then sliced in half by the vertical stabilizer.
Being ejected is very tramautic experience. They lose something like 1 inch in height during an ejection due to the forces compression their spine.