Nichol has a natural feel for his subject...prepare for a breathtaking ride" - Peterborough Telegraph

Eject! Eject! by John Nichol | WHSmith

The epic story of an iconic aircraft and the breathtaking courage of those who flew her' Andy McNab, bestselling author of Bravo Two ZeroWhether you want to build your own home theater or just learn more about TVs, displays, projectors, and more, we've got you covered. Few of us truly understand the astonishing depth and scale of their sacrifice. On 30 March 1944, 795 aircraft assembled for a raid on Nuremberg, the iconic heart of Nazi Germany. Nearly 700 men did not return. It was the RAF’s bloodiest night of the war, and became a tragic symbol of the most enduringly controversial elements of Sir Arthur ‘Bomber’ Harris’s strategy.

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Now eight years later, at RAF Wing in Aylesbury, on September 12, 1942, Baker, 54, was preparing to take their latest prototype – the MB3 fighter, which could fly at 400mph – for its second test flight. That morning, Baker’s brow was uncharacteristically furrowed as he turned to Martin and said: “I have a feeling, Jimmy, that something is not quite right.” The seat raced up its runners at 60 feet a second and shot Lynch into the unknown. “The punch was powerful but not painful,” he recalled. Once he had risen 24 feet, a drogue gun fired, blasting the stabilising parachute out from the top of his seat. So far, so good. The Meteor was gone. By 1934, the sign at the Denham factory read: “The Martin-Baker Aircraft Company”. Martin would design the aircraft, Baker would be co-designer and test pilot. In the two-thirds of a century that have passed since then, historians have endlessly analysed what went wrong and squabbled over who was to blame.Compelling, thrilling and rooted in quite extraordinary human drama' James Holland, author of Normandy 44 Fuelled by his own lifesaving escape from a blazing jet, John Nichol catapults you into the heart of the most epic experiences of ejection, escape and survival since the days when you had to haul yourself out of a crippled aircraft and hope for the best’ Andy McNab We see how the technology was adapted when the prospect of crashing in North Vietnam was sometimes preferable to ejecting and risking capture; what happens to the body when it is catapulted from an aircraft under great force; how an ejectee can be rescued from enemy territory. Select Launcher icon > Files icon > select device > select Eject icon (triangle) > remove physical device.