X-15 ejection seat

X-15 ejection seat

This ejection seat diagram is Figure 1-14 (Page 1-44) in the 1962 X-15 Flight Manual. The seat was designed for use at speeds up to Mach 4 and altitudes up to 125,000 feet.

The ejection seat image below extracted from NASA photo ECN-1695 by digitally painting out the background and touching up minor details.  The original photo shows an ejection seat removed from an X-15 at NASA Dryden.  For more information on the X-15 ejection seat a good source on the web is TheEjection Site

X-15 ejection sea

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