Anastase Dragomir (1896–1966) was a distinguished Romanian inventor, most famous for his &quot;catapultable cockpit&quot; patent (with Tănase Dobrescu) as an early form of ejection seat, although preceded by Everard Calthrop&#x27;s 1916 compressed air ejection seat, and others.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastase_Dragomir