Unrelated: Some of the Russian guys are really, really good at doing extremely close air support at speed in a really big helicopter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv3iHs8_2GY
I was stationed at Beale AFB in the late 70’s to mid 80’s and was around when an aircraft lost avionics on take off and when it started to turn over less than 100 feet off the ground, the pilots ended up ejecting sideways. Still in the seat they both bounced a few times and then after clearing the seat they ran like the wind away from the craft. If they had shot up rather than sideways, they would have stood a better chance of a safe egress. They were terribly lucky.
If an aircraft is designed to egress sideways and down, then altitude and angle become a very important topic. The act of egreesing up with a prop in the way becomes a real crap shoot. And with very little control of a chopper going down, which includes the twisting of the body as they don’t always go straight down, disappearing sideways and down becomes a matter of not firing yourself into the ground, a tree, a mountain, or any solid substance that can reek a variety of damage to the body.
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