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You're Top Poster: #1 | Air Vice-Marshal Peter Howard RIP An amazing man Quote: |
On March 13 1962 Howard fired himself from the rear seat of a modified Meteor jet fighter. The aircraft was flying at 250ft, at 290mph. The rocket pack strapped to the seat generated 3,600lbs of thrust over less than a fifth of a second, giving a peak force of 16G (16 times the pull of gravity), propelling the seat from the aircraft at a velocity of 80ft per second.
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