Video: Luftwaffe Test of an Experimental Ejection system

[infantryscout]

Here is film footage of a Luftwaffe research unit testing an experimental ejection seat using a static and airborne Stuka as the platform. The film is undated.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t59svWa1n_4

[Simon_G]

Reichlin Test Pilot Hans Werner Lerche was the guy testing that

[moanalot]

I have a book sent to me from Germany about Adolf Hitlers three personnel FW200 Condors. It's all in German and I cannot read it. However ,following the photo's ,diagrams and picking out words that I can understand, Adolf Hitler's chair or seat, in these aircraft were ejector seats. Not the type that that rocketed the Fuhrer through the roof. These fell through the floor by use of gravity. If the Fuhrer had a parachute built into the seat or one close at hand or even a cushion could be a disguised parachute,I do not know. I cant read it.

[phylo_roadking]

IIRC there are cutaway drawings of that aircraft on this forum somewhere...