Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!att!cbnews!military From: amdcad!daveme%tekirl.labs.tek.com@RELAY.CS.NET (Dave Mead) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: The XB-70 bomber program. Summary: "Funny" story about B-70 crash. Message-ID: <9861@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 3 Oct 89 13:05:22 GMT References: <27390@amdcad.AMD.COM> Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Lines: 22 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Dave MeadThere was a third B-70 I believe since I read a weird story about the unique supersonic ejection system it had. It was a self-contained clamshell affair designed to force the crewman into fetal position and slam shut just before punch-out. This thing had oxygen, survival gear, chutes, and was to protect the crewman at high altitude and supersonic speed. Well they had to use the system for real and it didn't work right. The timing was bad and the crewman got his appendages broken when the clamshell slammed down on his very non-fetal body and shot him unsealed into the cold stratosphere. I think he was further injured passing through the exit hole with mangled parts dangling. The guy lived through it but really got munched. Dave Mead