After shrapnel I wonder what else was going through his head at the time?
He was able to eject. That’s a shame.
However… what’s with the blood? I guess that’s the facemask, so is it common to get a bloody nose during the ejection process? I know it’s incredibly violent and can often result in injury, but is it more likely that he simply got bashed on his schnoz or that the blood is the result of holes being poked in various bits of his innards?
[Edit] Oh, and I wonder about the significance of the helicopter sitting on the ground. ***If*** it was a first-response team and they found the pilot injured but alive, you’d assume that they would scoop him up and fly off towards a hospital as fast as possible, rather than hanging about taking pictures. But then again… Russians. Always a bad move to assume they’ll behave in a rational way, even when dealing with someone as valuable as a trained pilot.
“Catapult escape” is amazing, what a cute mistranslation and a great mental picture.
When a pilot ejects it is typically a very violent process which often leaves the occupants bloody.
Here is a bit I pulled from elsewhere that summed it up nicely I think.
Ejection Seats are not a free ticket out. They are incredibly violent and rough on your body. This newspaper article has a more chilling quote from an interview:
“About one in three will get a spinal facture, due to the force when the seat is ejected – the gravitational force is 14 to 16 times normal gravity and it might be applied at 200G per second. Bruising and abrasions are typical from the shock of the chute opening or the air blast. In the early days, there were cases where pilots would eject into very-high-speed air and it would whip their arms behind and break them, pop their shoulders out; same thing could happen to the legs. [Source](https://www.smh.com.au/education/how-dangerous-is-it-to-eject-from-a-fighter-jet-20120730-239mp.html)
Hence, it is very possible to get back pains and a host of other problems as a result of ejecting. Since these type of things are not that easily reversible, you’d rather take the safe path and remove then from the cockpit than put then back in a work environment that known is pretty hard on your body. Aircrew seem to agree:
Modern ejection seats are however increasingly intelligent and will gauge the ejection force applied to the conditions, cutting down the number of serious cases.
[This paper](https://emj.bmj.com/content/17/5/371.full) discusses the symptoms of four individuals who crashed their jets in mid-air. The medical problems encountered with ejection can be classified as follows:
Injuries from the emergency that causes ejection—fire or collision.
Canopy jettison: burns from “MDC splatter” and cuts from fragmented plastic. For these reasons, aircrew are always advised to wear their visors down, to protect the face.
Firing of ejection gun: spinal injuries.
Entering airflow: wind blast may cause lung damage; seat tumbles at variable speed, which may be as high as 180 rpm. (All seats have a drogue parachute or deployable aerodynamic panels to prevent tumbling); flail injuries to extremities.
Parachute deployment: snatch injuries.
Landing: lower limb injuries.
Is the helicopter Russian? Or hopefully Ukrainian. I hope they captured the pilot
Is this a Russian or Ukrainian SU-34? Did UKR ever have SU-34’s?
Do they get ejected out the sides in a helicopter?
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Its raining men…
After shrapnel I wonder what else was going through his head at the time?
He was able to eject. That’s a shame.
However… what’s with the blood? I guess that’s the facemask, so is it common to get a bloody nose during the ejection process? I know it’s incredibly violent and can often result in injury, but is it more likely that he simply got bashed on his schnoz or that the blood is the result of holes being poked in various bits of his innards?
[Edit] Oh, and I wonder about the significance of the helicopter sitting on the ground. ***If*** it was a first-response team and they found the pilot injured but alive, you’d assume that they would scoop him up and fly off towards a hospital as fast as possible, rather than hanging about taking pictures. But then again… Russians. Always a bad move to assume they’ll behave in a rational way, even when dealing with someone as valuable as a trained pilot.
“Catapult escape” is amazing, what a cute mistranslation and a great mental picture.
When a pilot ejects it is typically a very violent process which often leaves the occupants bloody.
Here is a bit I pulled from elsewhere that summed it up nicely I think.
https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/15295/why-are-pilots-deemed-unfit-to-fly-after-emergency-ejection
Ejection Seats are not a free ticket out. They are incredibly violent and rough on your body. This newspaper article has a more chilling quote from an interview:
“About one in three will get a spinal facture, due to the force when the seat is ejected – the gravitational force is 14 to 16 times normal gravity and it might be applied at 200G per second. Bruising and abrasions are typical from the shock of the chute opening or the air blast. In the early days, there were cases where pilots would eject into very-high-speed air and it would whip their arms behind and break them, pop their shoulders out; same thing could happen to the legs. [Source](https://www.smh.com.au/education/how-dangerous-is-it-to-eject-from-a-fighter-jet-20120730-239mp.html)
Hence, it is very possible to get back pains and a host of other problems as a result of ejecting. Since these type of things are not that easily reversible, you’d rather take the safe path and remove then from the cockpit than put then back in a work environment that known is pretty hard on your body. Aircrew seem to agree:
“It was the most violent thing I’ve ever felt in my life,” says one of the B-1 crew members, whom the Air Force asked me to identify as “Captain IROC.” “I lost a full inch in height,” because his spine absorbed such tremendous G-forces. [Source](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/how-things-work-ejection-seats-29088450/#eVsKyTAhpzQS7pBE.99)
Modern ejection seats are however increasingly intelligent and will gauge the ejection force applied to the conditions, cutting down the number of serious cases.
[This paper](https://emj.bmj.com/content/17/5/371.full) discusses the symptoms of four individuals who crashed their jets in mid-air. The medical problems encountered with ejection can be classified as follows:
Injuries from the emergency that causes ejection—fire or collision.
Canopy jettison: burns from “MDC splatter” and cuts from fragmented plastic. For these reasons, aircrew are always advised to wear their visors down, to protect the face.
Firing of ejection gun: spinal injuries.
Entering airflow: wind blast may cause lung damage; seat tumbles at variable speed, which may be as high as 180 rpm. (All seats have a drogue parachute or deployable aerodynamic panels to prevent tumbling); flail injuries to extremities.
Parachute deployment: snatch injuries.
Landing: lower limb injuries.
Is the helicopter Russian? Or hopefully Ukrainian. I hope they captured the pilot
Is this a Russian or Ukrainian SU-34? Did UKR ever have SU-34’s?
Do they get ejected out the sides in a helicopter?
Edit: I got curious and found a video. [helicopter ejection seats](https://youtu.be/R5rl55OwpKg?si=4VA0FAZU6pUxa6-O)
What’s the deal with the helicopter?
Mouth piece looks nasty
That blood leads me to believe something happened