Ejector seat

It is rather worrying that it was Irishmen who came up with the first functioning helicopter (Louis Brennan) and also the first ejector seat.
It was in 1945 when Sir James Martin tested out his device on a dummy (a wise choice if you ask me). A year later, a man called Bernard Lynch became the first live tester of the ejector seat invention.

Later on it was adopted by the Royal Air force as a standard safety device.

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