F101B Seat Ejection Tests, Edwards Air Force Base, California

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INDEX DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OFFICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION THE PENTAGON, WASHINGTON 25, D.C. - LIBERTY 5-6700 AUDIO-VISUAL DIVISION - RAD10-TV-NEWSFILM SECTION ROOM 2E791 EXTENSION 75111 (b) Release No. 78-58 Footage: 175 DUPE NEGATIVE TO: Release 23 April FINE GRAIN TO; Fox Movietone Fox-UP F-101B SEAT EJECTION TESTS Edwarde AirForce Base california (Official Air Force footage released by Dept. of Defense) A test program of the crew escape systems of the McDonnell F-1018 has been completed at the High Speed Research Track at the Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California. This testing provided data relative to the functions of the canopy jettisoning and pilot and radar operator ejection seat operation. Instrumentation, such as strain gages, position indicators and pressure transducers were installed in the cockpit and fuselage section of the vehicle, the seat and in anthropomorphic dummys. Data from these devices were telemetered by Bendix Transmitters to a receiving station and recorded on magnetic tape and oscillographic recorders. F-101B ejection studies are considered successful in that the problems connected with the pilot and radar operator escape system have been pinpointed and the necessary improvements made. Sequences show: (a) High Speed Research Track at the Air Force Flight Test Center Sled on truck arrives at not. Sled truck is positioned. Canopy is fired into net. (e) Rear subject is ejected into not. (f) Front subject is ejected into net. (g) Pan left to right as sled makes run down track ejecting both test subjects. (h) Slow motion film. Track side as subjects are ejected. NOTE TO EDITORS: PLEASE CREDIT DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE IN TITLE OR COMMENTARY for The fine grain master positive, released to the company designated above, is for duplication and distribution to interested TV and Newsreel pool members. It is then to be returned within 72 hours to the Film Library, Army Pictorial Center, 35-11 35th Avenue, Long Island City 1, New York. The master positive must not be cut in any manner. A dupe negative is also for release to the company designated above for distribution to pool members so desiring for duplication purposes. Within 24 hours it will be delivered to DeLuxe Laboratories, 850 Tenth Avenue, New York, N. Y., telephone Circle 7-3220 where it will be avail- able to non-pool members and other authorized organizations which make satisfactory financial D41454 arrangements with DeLuxe Laboratories. The dupe negative must not be cut in any manner.

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

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Filmed News Releases