Packed with interviews with aircrew who know exactly how it feels to ‘Bang Out’ from an aircraft at high speed, both in peace and in war, the book gives the reader a vivid sense of what that life-saving experience feels like, but also features the moving accounts of what happens next, from the viewpoint of both the crews and their families, who often have little or no information about whether or not their loved ones have survived. Using long-forgotten documents and personal interviews with the survivors, John Nichol tells the incredible story of how the men of 617 Squadron took the fight to the heart of Hitler’s war machine and helped change the course of the war. When Jo Lancaster, the first British pilot to eject in an emergency, triggered his ejection seat in 1949, it took thirty seconds before he was safely away from the aircraft and under his parachute. He has made a number of TV documentaries with Second World War veterans, written for national newspapers and magazines, and is a widely quoted commentator on military affairs.

The ‘curious damn contraption’ that has saved 7,694 lives

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If you have tried the methods recommended above and still CD is stuck in Mac, try this fix to Eject CD frokm Mac. As characteristic of the jet age as the sonic boom, the ejection seat has saved thousands from certain death since German test pilot Schenk became the first to owe his life to such a device in 1942.

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We see how the technology was adapted when the prospect of crashing in North Vietnam was sometimes preferable to ejecting and risking capture; what happens to the body when it is catapulted from an aircraft under great force; how an ejectee can be rescued from enemy territory.

RAF flight lieutenants John Peters and John Nichol were shot down over enemy territory on their first airborne mission of the Gulf War. Lost in the process was that other Arnhem story: the triumph of the human spirit, as seen through the dramatic first-hand accounts of those who were there, military and Dutch civilians side by side, in the cauldron, fighting for their lives, fighting for their comrades, fighting for their honour - a battle they won hands down. The icing on the cake was a public house within easy walking distance, where he rewarded himself with a ­welcome-home pint. ExpertWiFi EBR63 is not the first ASUS router made for businesses but it’s the first in the company’s new ExpertWiFi line-up.