Seriously, it’s always the slowest ones that go down with the ship/flying aircraft carrier/Death Star. That’s why our friends at Oobject have assembled the 11 best ways to bail—and fast.
And while you’re making your great escape, be sure to check out dummies going splat in these 10 ejection seat test videos, these 15 human-cocoons (the best kind of human-something hybrid), and some bubble cars—the escape pods of the road.
EXINT underwing pod for inserting or extracting special forces operatives
Miles M.52 transonic research aircraft escape pod
Convair B-58 Hustler escape pod
F-111 Aardvark detachable cockpit escape pod
NASA rocket capsule escape system
If you ever wondered what the tiny rocket at the top of NASA rockets since the Apollo era, was, they fire to eject the capsule in the event of a launch emergency.