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February 17, 2014 · 11:47 am

Ejection Seat In a Helicopter

I remember watching a History Channel documentary when I was about ten or eleven years old. They mentioned an ejection seat in a helicopter and I immediately started laughing. I thought it was the best bad idea of all time. I pictured a pilot ejecting straight into the blades, splattering instantly like a water balloon in a blender, like shit hitting the fan. It still makes me laugh. I know that real helicopter ejection seats don’t work like that, and that’s almost a shame. An ejection seat in a helicopter. Think about it. Appreciate it.

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Written, Rated, and Reviewed by Brendan H. Young

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October 3, 2013 · 9:54 am

Helicopters

Helicopters are an amazing piece of technology. They can fly in any direction swiftly and nimbly, like giant manmade hummingbirds. Helicopters are useful for news and traffic reports, for transporting billionaires around, for fighting fires, and for military operations to secure oil derricks and kill innocent civilians around the world. I’ve never been in a helicopter and I don’t want to. I’m not scared of them, I just don’t trust them. If something goes wrong in a plane, you can always hope that the pilot can glide you to a safe landing. But if something goes wrong in a helicopter, you fall out of the sky life a rock. Planes have parachutes, life jackets, inflatable slides, and ejector seats in case of an emergency. An ejector seat in a helicopter would lead to an even faster and messier death. Those rotor blades can do some serious damage. Just ask Vic Morrow (That’s a really good joke, but it might require a quick Google search).

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