What kind of ejection seats does the OV-10 have?
(Updated 04/02/01) The OV-10 has LW-3B zero-speed, zero-altitude seats designed and built by Rockwell at the Columbus Aircraft Division. The only difference between the front and rear seats are that the parachute on the front seat is mounted on the left side and the backseater’s chute is on the right. This is to help them drift in different directions (to the outboard side) after ejection and hopefully not collide. The backseater can eject by himself, but if the pilot ejects they both go, with a time delay between the pilot and backseater. There is a canopy breaker mounted as a trapezoidal plate sticking up above the seat top, in order to shatter the pre-stressed panels as the seat goes through, no detonation cord is used on the glass to break it.
