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by notact 841 days ago
Yup, and also not getting sucked out the door if you were able to open it (which you couldn't at cabin pressure anyway).
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Burt Berlin, my mentor at Boeing, got his start working on the B47 (first jet bomber). They discovered that the pilot could not bail out into the wind stream, the force would just push him back in. Hence the development of the ejection seat to force him out.