When You Need to Grab the Handles…

The VS - 1 BRI ejection seat serves as the pilot's workplace in the Aero L-39 C, ZO and ZA Albatros series of aircraft, and at the same time, is there in the event of an emergency situation requiring rapid egress of the crew. The emergency egress system of the aircraft includes two VS-1BRI ejection seats, an emergency ejection system of the cockpit canopies of both pilots, and ensuring the proper and functioning order of ejection of all components.

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Tomáš Dedera

The VS - 1 BRI ejection seat serves as the

pilot's workplace in the Aero L-39 C, ZO and ZA

Albatros series of aircraft, and at the same time,

is there in the event of an emergency situation

requiring rapid egress of the crew.

The emergency egress system of the aircraft

includes two VS-1BRI ejection seats, an

emergency ejection system of the cockpit

canopies of both pilots, and ensuring the

proper and functioning order of ejection

of all components.

Main Technical Data:

• Seat weight: 80.2kg

• Seat dimensions: w x l x h: 588 x 810 x 1188mm

• Maximum G Limit on ejection: 17g

• Maximum altitude of parachute deployment: 4,000m

• Stabilizer chute area: 0.5m2

• Main chute area: 50m2

• Rate of decent of main chute: 6m/s

• Minimum speed at zero height (for proper

canopy separation): 150km/h

• Maximum safe ejection altitude in vertical dive

and at maximum 900km/h: 1,500m

• Maximum weight of equipped pilot: 108kg

• Weight of seat with pilot: 188kg

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May 2024