Keywords: RAPEC ejection seat sequence at NOTS China Lake.JPG A series of photographs showing a test at the Supersonic Naval Ordnance Research Track SNORT of the Rocket-Assisted Personnel-Ejection Catapult RAPEC ejection seat The U S Navy Naval Ordnance Test Station at China Lake California designed and developed RAPEC in the mid- and late-1950s U S Navy Naval Museum of Armament and Technology http //www chinalakemuseum org/history/weaponsdigest htm photo http //www chinalakemuseum org/history/overview_pages/rapec html ca 1955-1959 USN PD-USGov-Military-Navy Ejection seat testing Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake Rocket sleds |