Richard Noble is at it again

I'd love to see the safety measures. are they going to go for ejection seat?
 
An ejection seat will be of no use if it rolls.
 
If anything goes wrong at a 1000mph, i doubt there's really anything you can do about it. Ejection seat? You'd be blasted out of the car at a 1000mph, just to smash into the ground moments later. Wont be pretty.. :b
 
Yeah but what are it's 'ring times?
 
Are there ejection seats that work at faster than sound speeds?
 
Oh the seats will work allright, but there's no way the driver will survive a direct blast of air at MACH 1+ speeds....

I thought so too but apparently that's not true.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ejection_seat said:
In the early 1960s, deployment of rocket-powered ejection seats designed for use at supersonic speeds began in such planes as the F-106 Delta Dart. Six pilots have ejected at speeds exceeding 700 knots (805 mph) and the highest altitude a Martin-Baker seat was deployed at was 57,000 ft (from a Canberra bomber in 1958). Following an accident on 30 July 1966 in the attempted launch of a D-21 drone, two Lockheed A-12 crew members ejected at Mach 3.25 at an altitude of 80,000 ft.
 
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