What a ride

Awesome. What is an ejection parachute like. Is it designed to work without intervention from the ejectee? Steerable? Flareable?
 
Murdoughnut said:
The sequence of failures in this thing is pretty amusing - including the one that ended up saving the aircraft.
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I had always thought, and I’m pretty sure was briefed in my F-15 flight, that if the pilot ejects both eject, but if the back seater initiates only they go. But maybe that was just the setting they had it on. Also the crew chief strapped me in, don’t know why they had this guy buckling himself up.
 
Screaming_Emu said:
“So how was work today?”
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Waaay back when, I had an Air Force ROTC instructor who had ejected inadvertently over South Vietnam.

His pilot relief tube sprung a leak, and shorted out the wrong switch.

History doesn't reveal what his carpet dance for his CO was like.
 
EIR said:
If he was stressed prior to ejecting himself, I can't imagine how much stress he was under while free falling.
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Yea, when he woke up hanging from the chute I'd guess he wonder what the heck just happened.

I used to work for a guy who flew A4's in Vietnam. Got shot down twice but made it to the coast both times before punching out.
 
fholbert said:
Yea, when he woke up hanging from the chute I'd guess he wonder what the heck just happened.

I used to work for a guy who flew A4's in Vietnam. Got shot down twice but made it to the coast both times before punching out.
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Those stories make you feel like a total crybaby when you complain about chop haha.
 
Kingairer said:
Awesome. What is an ejection parachute like. Is it designed to work without intervention from the ejectee? Steerable? Flareable?
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Ejection seat parachutes are round, and most have steering handles that when pulled cut 4 lines in the back of the chute that enable an acceptable level of steering. It can't really be flared, if it can they don't teach us to do so. It deploys completely without intervention from the user, and depending on the seat, can have several different modes of operation from "you're so high up we're going to wait awhile to deploy so you get to hang out and fall in the seat for awhile" to "you got yourself in a huge mess and this is going to hurt, and you probably won't be ok." The Harrier seat can have you under an open canopy in 1.35 second from pulling the handle. I still don't understand how that's possible.
 
NovemberEcho said:

Rafale Ride Leads To Inadvertent Ejection By Overstressed Passenger | Aviation Week Network

A ride in a French Air Force Rafale B didn’t go as planned when an overstressed, back-seat passenger inadvertently ejected from the two-seat fighter, and the aircraft was saved only because of a previously undetected flaw that prevented the pilot’s ejection, a new French military report said.
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OK, I've had a few coolie pops on quarantine tonight,
so perhaps I'm just being a dick,
but what is the angle the commenter, Godston has, wanting to talk to the pilot and posting his phone number?

a blogger, wanting to run with a story?
 
mightynimbus said:
OK, I've had a few coolie pops on quarantine tonight,
so perhaps I'm just being a dick,
but what is the angle the commenter, Godston has, wanting to talk to the pilot and posting his phone number?

a blogger, wanting to run with a story?
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seems like a boomer/officer who doesn’t know how the internet works.
 
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EIR said:
If he was stressed prior to ejecting himself, I can't imagine how much stress he was under while free falling.
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Ahhhh... well, in terms of G's?? Yeah, that would be NONE. ...(or were you mocking us, roundeye?).;)

But, yeah, that one had to be a least a tad bit embarrassing for the engineers who developed and executed the ejection system test protocols. No worries, though. The lucky bastages who win the new "recheck" contract will contribute positively to France's gross GDP. It's always ALL good these days...
 
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mightynimbus said:
OK, I've had a few coolie pops on quarantine tonight,
so perhaps I'm just being a dick,
but what is the angle the commenter, Godston has, wanting to talk to the pilot and posting his phone number?

a blogger, wanting to run with a story?
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LOL.

”Oh, dad, be careful when you post on the internet!”

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I was at an EAA Young Eagles event 20+ years ago where a kid try to get out of a Piper Cub 100' up. It was summer time, door was off, pilot in the back seat and the kid was 8 or 9 years old. Cub took off, started climbing, then the plane went all over the place kind of like the drunk pilot airshow routines. After a few seconds of that, he pulled throttle and slipped to a landing.

The pilot was white as a ghost when he parked. Apparently the kid just got scared shortly after takeoff and noped right out. The kid was half way out the door, and the pilot had to hang on to him with one arm while he landed. This was back when the YE program still had a zero fatality record that they were quite proud of. Pretty sure that was the last Young Eagles event at that club.
 
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