Which German aircraft company invented the 'ejector seat' in 1942?
Ejection seat ("bail out"), and in many cases this was difficult due to injury, the difficulty of egress from a confined space, "g" forces, the airflow past the aircraft, and other factors. The first ejection seats were developed independently during World War II by Heinkel and SAAB. Early models were powered by compressed air and the first aircraft to be fitted with such a system was the Heinkel He 280 prototype jet-engined fighter in 1940. One of the He 280 test pilots, Helmut Schenk, became the first person to escape from a stricken aircraft with an ejection seat on 13 January 1942
Ejector Seat of some criticism, with Marion McMullen of the "Coventry Telegraph" accusing that the idea of tipping over chairs had been stolen from "The Graham Norton Show" and was "a gimmick too far". She also stated that the show was an inferior replacement for "Tipping Point". That said, the Digital Spy team called it a "delight" and said "[we] can't wait to see more people being tipped back into their Ejector Seat chairs". Ejector Seat Ejector Seat is a British game show, presented by former Children's BBC presenter Andi Peters, that aired on ITV from 28 April to 22 June 2014