Aug 17 1946

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Sergeant Lambert of Wright Field, Ohio, became the first person in the United States to be ejected from an airplane by means of emergency escape equipment (ejected from a P-61 airplane traveling 802 miles per hour at an altitude of 7,800 feet).

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