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  2. Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 - Wikipedia

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    The MiG-23's ejection seat, the KM-1, was built with extreme altitude and speed in mind: leg stirrups, shoulder harness, pelvic D-ring, and a 3-parachute system. Engaging the ejection seat could take a long time, as the pilots had to place their feet in the stirrups, let go of the control column, grab the two trigger handles, squeeze and lift them.

  3. 1989 Belgium MiG-23 crash - Wikipedia

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    On 4 July 1989, a pilotless MiG-23 jet fighter of the Soviet Air Forces crashed into a house in Bellegem, near Kortrijk, Belgium, killing one person.The pilot had ejected over an hour earlier near Kołobrzeg, Poland, after experiencing technical problems, but the aircraft continued flying for around 900 km (600 mi) before running out of fuel and crashing into the ground.

  4. List of MiG-23 operators - Wikipedia

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    In 1984, 12 MiG-23MF Frogger B fighter aircraft were imported. Subsequently, towards the end of the 1980s, 54 MiG-23ML Frogger G multi-role fighter aircraft and seven MiG-23UM Frogger C two-seat trainer aircraft were introduced. This expanded MiG-23 force was also dispatched to the Angola civil war and used in air combat.

  5. Robert M. Bond - Wikipedia

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    Work continued to make the KM-1 ejection seat used in the MiG-23 safe and reliable; another USAF pilot, Mark Postai, had been killed in an attempted ejection from a MiG-23 in 1982. [22] Maintaining the Soviet ejection seats included reverse engineering the pyrotechnic cartridges which fired them, as these had a relatively short life and had to ...

  6. Ejection seat - Wikipedia

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    K-36DM Ejection seat used on MiG-29, Su-30. A zero-zero ejection seat is designed to safely extract upward and land its occupant from a grounded stationary position (i.e., zero altitude and zero airspeed), specifically from aircraft cockpits. The zero-zero capability was developed to help aircrews escape upward from unrecoverable emergencies ...

  7. List of Mikoyan and MiG aircraft - Wikipedia

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    MiG I-300 (F) - prototype for MiG-9, 1946; MiG's first jet fighter design; MiG I-301 (FS) - production version of MiG-9; MiG I-301T (FT) - experimental two-seat trainer version of MiG-9, 1946; first Soviet aircraft with an ejection seat; MiG I-302 (FP) - experimental version of MiG-9 with the N-37 cannon moved to the side of the fuselage

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  9. List of displayed Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23s - Wikipedia

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    Mig-23BN-SK-247 on display at Amrita University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu in the Department of Aerospace Engineering's Lab. [9] MiG-23 on display at Hindustan University in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. [10] [11] MiG-23 on display at Air Force Quarters in Mumbai, Maharashtra. [citation needed]