Muzeum Foteli Katapultowych w Oleśnicy/Museum of Ejection Seats
Ludwikowska 27
56-400 Oleśnica
+48 515 290 580
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Aircraft collection
| 1209
4244 |
PZL TS-11-bis D Iskra (forward fuselage)
Sukhoi Su-20R (forward fuselage) |
Ejection Seats
| KK-1
KK-2 KS-2 KS-3 KS-4 SK KM-1 KM-1M K-36 Ejection Seat Yak-23 VS-1 BRI P-8 Martin Baker Ejection Seat TS-11 Simulator Ejection Seat TS-11 Iskra ACES II K-5MN K-7MN KT-1M Ejection Seat Ilyushin Il-28 |
Seats
| Mi-2
Mi-4 Mi-8 Mi-17 Mi-24 An-28 PZL-130 Orlik |
On display also helmets, uniforms, engines and memorabilia.
The purpose of an ejection seat is pilot survival. The pilot typically experiences an acceleration of about 12–14g. Western seats usually impose lighter loads on the pilots; 1960s–70s era Soviet technology often goes up to 20–22 g (with SM-1 and KM-1 gunbarrel-type ejection seats). Compression fractures of vertebrae are a recurrent side effect of ejection.
Photo Muzeum Foteli Katapultowych w Oleśnicy, Poland