Navy pilots ride FAST, land safely.

PositionTech talk - Future Advanced Sequencer Technology - Brief Article

The U.S. Navy is using a new ejection scar sequencer that can catapult a pilot, co-pilot and their seats out of a damaged F/A-18, F-14, or T-45 aircraft within 0.2 seconds from the time the ejection handle is pulled.

A triple-redundant digital sequencer senses the right speed and altitude and then deploys a parachute, contained within the ejection seat.

The ejection seat was designed using commercial-off-the-shelf components and written in Ada programming language.

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