Transient Recording System in Pyrotechnic Tests

SHOULD a fighter pilot have need of his Martin‐Baker ejection seat, much of life‐saving action will be over in the blink of an eye. Pyrotechnic charges will have ejected the seat from the cockpit and a rocket motor will have sustained the thrust to carry the seat clear of the stricken aircraft — all within 0.5 of a second of the pilot pulling the firing handle.