EJECTION SEATS

Ejection seat technology has saved many thousands of military pilots and aircrew over the years. PRNAM has a wide variety of these automated life-saving systems on display for you to analyze and marvel at their complexity and extremely high reliability.

We have a number of actual seats on display that were installed in various models of jet aircraft.

We even have the actual seat that was used by one of our test pilots to get out of a disabled S-3 ‘Viking’ Anti-Submarine jet aircraft that was on fire!

Anatomy of an Ejection Seat

Parachute housing

Parachute risers

Canopy breakers

Parachute fittings

Leg restraints

Firing handle

Oxygen hose

Saved/armed handle

Parachute deployment rocket

Underseat rocket motors

Quick Facts

Early ejection seats used gunpowder charges and compressed air guns to fire the seat.

The seat pan under the aviator contains vital survival gear to help pilots.

Modern ejection seats use rockets for better trajectory control and to reduce the shock loads to aviators.