Pilots who supernaturally sank due to subsequent shooting from the plane

Launching from an aircraft with warships was never common and there were many such accidents. Regardless, ejection seats also saved a significant number of these pilots, including some whose aircraft were proactively lowered.

It is October 13, 1954. The famous naval pilot Bruce McFarlane took off from an English aircraft carrying the battleship Albion somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea. Seconds later, his plane fell into the water before the ship.

McFarlane flew a heavy and powerful aircraft called the Westland Warren. It is supposed to be an attack aircraft controlled by an extremely large engine and two alternating propellers at the front of the aircraft, each rotating somewhere else.

Warren had experienced problems and had been placed into administration just a year earlier. Albion's journey, which began in September, presented a difficult challenge.
It was said that Warren could be subjected to g-force on take-off, which meant that the fuel supply to the engine could be quickly removed, causing a "burnout" problem. Without fuel and weapons, the plane weighed more than seven tons and could not fly normally. During its most memorable arrangement, several Vorans collided with the ocean after departure.

In any case, MacFarlane's misfortune was rather unique.

Despite being driven by propellers, the Wyvern was a sort of fly and was one of the few "non-aircraft" to include a launch seat, a necessity for pilots flying the aircraft after launching from a ship. They fall into the water.
McFarlane missed the opportunity to settle before his plane plunged into the water, and not long after the 24,000-ton aircraft carrying the warship ignored the downed plane.

The ship ignored this and sliced ​​the depressed Waurin in two. During the eerie shot of the plane part, they paused to reduce the shadow. Then he pulled the handle. Still, nothing happened.

McFarlane pulled the handle once more and this time the seat moved and popped up. The pilot then "ended up drifting in the water below the Albion," according to an incident report at the Quiet Cut airfield. As if it wasn't, they soon realized that they were being pulled down in the water.

It is further learned that 'somehow or other they freed themselves from the trappings of the net which was their parachute, and then gradually began to rise to the surface.'

McFarlane engaged his seat in a way never imagined by its originators, transforming himself into the chief pilot to effectively exit the submerged aircraft.

The innovation of ejection seats was in its early stages at the time, and two or three dozen effective launches had been produced by this point.

Martin-Cook, the English organization that planned the seat, didn't even think about whether the seats could work in this condition.

"You shouldn't launch submerged," says Hushkit head Joe Coles. .'

Pilots who escape from their seats while submerged face various difficulties, including the hazard of unexpected submersion and the possibility of decompression injuries if they surface too quickly. There is also gambling with "stress" in the body.

"The first transport jets during the 1950s used really terrible engines and often crashed after takeoff due to lack of power," says Coles.

The high accident rate of a large number of these types of aircraft encouraged the advancement of better ejection seats to save the pilots' lives.
Long term specialist Martin Pastry produced a rendition of his Imprint 6 set expressly for the profession situated Blackburn Pirates. Cole says the idea behind this was that “you want compressed air to work, you don't need submerged explosives. This way, with the Imprint 6, you extend the shelter with compressed air and push the pilot up with compressed air.

"The moment the plane gets to a certain depth submerged below the surface, it realizes it's there and initiates the most common method of water escape from that point. The plane knows that and needs to get the person out. We'd rather not be submerged."

10 years after McFarlane's hiatus, U.S. Navy pilots effectively ejected from an A-7 fighter jet that landed inaccurately during night training and stuck to the edge of the ship's deck. The loop of his tail was also trapped in the wire.

Pilot Russ Pearson later wrote in the marine magazine The Snare: “The aircraft was stuck in a heartbeat on the edge of the flight deck. Running around was proportional self-destruction. The ejection seat's rocket motor will propel the seat through the water like a boulder skipping over a lake.

The A-7's engine moved down until it was moving too slowly to keep up with its electrical power. Pearson writes that "the plane dropped from the flight deck and dropped almost 18 meters before plunging into the waters of the Pacific - the sensation was like falling into a dark hole".

                                   
In US Navy training, pilots were instructed that a normal aircraft would consistently descend 10 feet (three meters) and that they had only 10 seconds to escape before it was past the point of no return.

Hudson pulled the handle, causing the blast to throw him into the deep water, the force knocking his breathing apparatus off his face. He weakened and was weakened by the bright lights of the landing lights thrown into the water by the transporter's flight deck commanders.

Pearson was nearly pulled back by his somewhat open parachute and figured out how to float his lifejacket using his airplane floating under the outer layer of water.
Another ten years after it happened, a third pilot appeared who figured out how to avoid such a situation. He had a place with India. His plane collided with the ocean after takeoff. In any case, such episodes are unusual.

To understand how difficult it is to escape from a submerged aircraft, this informative video of the US Navy from the 1960s should do the trick.

The hushed tone of the narrator's content misrepresents what happens when the pilot exits the test tank from a mock cockpit surrounded by lifelines.

Strangely, the video warns pilots not to abandon their aircraft assuming they are drifting at surface level. Unlike later models, it is not protected against the use of a fixed aircraft ejection seat innovation (called a "zero").

The video states that falling 80 feet (25 m) into water is the same as falling a similar level onto concrete. That's an exciting thought.
The tone of the fireplace conversation in the video is different from the film of the pilot walking away from the lowered cabin in slow motion (infused energy can cause blackouts). following, lean back from the seat).

While pilots would be connected to an oxygen supply and might not have to struggle to stop breathing, the video shows how difficult it is for pilots to leave their seats.

In November 2021, a Regal Naval Force F-35B fighter jet pilot ejected from his aircraft excessively close to a transporter shortly after takeoff (potentially due to the defensive engine covers not being removed prior to deployment). went).

The F-35B has an airframe that will naturally trigger the pilot if it detects that it is about to stir things up in the city. This is a significantly more complex form of the frame used in the Soviet Yak-38 jump.

                                   

The Russian form entered administration during the 1970s. The Yak was like the Harriers used by England and America, but its engine was less powerful and less solid. In the event that one of its thrusters malfunctions or the aircraft moves more than 60 degrees, the pilot is naturally ejected.

In any case, it's anything but an unexpected treat, but getting out with your hands drenched is probably less worrying.