Eject! Eject!
- Author: John Nichol
- Narrator: Thomas Judd
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
- Duration: 16:10:08
Synopsis
'Eject! Eject!'
When the call is made to abandon an aircraft, it's only the beginning of the story...
From the Sunday Times bestselling writer John Nichol, author of Spitfire, Lancaster and Tornado, comes a brilliant new book that reveals the astonishing story of an invention that has saved many thousands of lives around the world, including his own: the ejection seat.
Nichol tells the remarkable tale of how the ejection seat was first conceived during the Second World War as countless lives were lost in accidents and in battle. In the wake of the war, that technological race to save aircrew lives using explosive seats continued at an incredible pace. Nichol tells the story of the brave men who risked their lives testing those early devices, and interviewed the first British pilot to eject back in 1949, when ejection, from pulling the handle to being under the parachute, took thirty seconds. Today, that figure is down to around one second.
Packed with interviews with aircrew who know exactly how it feels to ‘Bang Out’ from an aircraft at high speed, both in peace and in war, the book gives the reader a vivid sense of what that life-saving experience feels like, but also features the moving accounts of what happens next, from the viewpoint of both the crews and their families, who often have little or no information about whether or not their loved ones have survived.
Because ejecting is just the start of a journey…..
Packed with dramatic action, incredible science and moving recollections, Eject! Eject! is an essential read.
Chapters
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chapter 02
Duration: 22min -
chapter 03
Duration: 50min -
chapter 04
Duration: 34min -
chapter 05
Duration: 34min -
chapter 06
Duration: 53min -
chapter 07
Duration: 52min -
chapter 08
Duration: 56min -
chapter 09
Duration: 54min -
chapter 10
Duration: 41min -
chapter 11
Duration: 38min -
chapter 12
Duration: 31min -
chapter 13
Duration: 01h03min -
chapter 14
Duration: 37min -
chapter 15
Duration: 51min -
chapter 16
Duration: 01h03s -
chapter 17
Duration: 47min -
chapter 18
Duration: 37min -
chapter 19
Duration: 40min -
chapter 20
Duration: 01h02s -
chapter 21
Duration: 49min