All four crew members ejected safely, the Air Force says. Visibility was poor with freezing temperatures and low clouds at the time, automated equipment indicates.
I don’t know about the B-1 specifically, but I know a lot of military aircraft use a “zero zero” rejection seat, meaning it will still work correctly at zero speed and zero altitude. I first learned about them in the late 80s so I assume they’re pretty widespread by now.
Yeah but, for zero zero to work the margin of error is very low over the runway. A whole lot of things have to go exactly right in an extremely short period of time.
Good on the Bones crew - all safe. Doesn’t really say what happened, but ejecting on landing must be a little hairy.
I don’t know about the B-1 specifically, but I know a lot of military aircraft use a “zero zero” rejection seat, meaning it will still work correctly at zero speed and zero altitude. I first learned about them in the late 80s so I assume they’re pretty widespread by now.
Yeah but, for zero zero to work the margin of error is very low over the runway. A whole lot of things have to go exactly right in an extremely short period of time.