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by chiph 3015 days ago
That one comment is really out of line with what I know about ejection seat testing. Did they use bears? Yes. Hundreds of bears? No. The same bears hundreds of times? As the other comments said - they would have had to drug the bears to the point where the physio data was worthless.

The USAF museum in Dayton Ohio has one of the escape modules on display (I saw it back in 2004-ish).

http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-...