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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
I’d imagine a hypersonic jet wouldn’t have an ejection seat but rather a ‘pod’ designed for surviveability. Something similar to the space shuttle. The belief is that the challenger astronauts, at least some of them, survived the breakup because their pod absorbed the forces involved. Unfortunately the chutes didn’t work.
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SR-71 blackbird pilot survived something similar. Plane just disintegrated.
http://www.chuckyeager.org/news/sr-7...ce-lived-tell/