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Kewl Stuff

Ah, that's right, there is det cord in the canopy. Retirement: losing brain cells!
 
Botch said:
Interesting point. The AF has always ejected the canopy first, then blew the pilot out. The Navy puts a spike at the top of their seats, which is intended to shatter the canopy before the pilots' helmet hits it. I need to look for that sequence on EweTube and watch more carefully.
The F-4 Phantom ejected the canopies, and was used by both the AF and the Navy. The new F-35 is also used by both services, but I have no idea how the ejection sequence works (it's been 14 years!); in fact, the canopy hinges at the front, so they're not even taking advantage of the slipstream to carry it away:

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EDIT: Well, that warn't accurate at All!


The canopy blew off, goose's seat rocket fired initially but wasn't working when he hit the canopy... Hollywood.
I know I've seen that movie decades ago, I need to watch it again.

EDIT II: That was the first hit on EweTube search, and had Russian subtitles. :laughing:
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I thought the Aces II explosive charge to eject the canopy just before the pilots were ejected.
You have to excuse my memory its been 35 years since I stood over an ejection seat for egress training.
Scary scary shit especially when you realize how things can go wrong. LOL
 
Randy said:
I thought the Aces II explosive charge to eject the canopy just before the pilots were ejected.
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That was my understanding, and I thought the Navy used that same system on their F-4s.
 
Botch said:
This is a good video on how a military ejection system works. This is what I did for a living for ten years.


There is one error. Video states that when the pilot pulls the ejection handles, "...an electrical pulse goes to the canopy ejection portion...", and that isn't true. When you pull the handle, that fires a tiny CAD/CAM explosive, which sends the signal via tubes lined inside with explosive, there is no electricity anywhere in these systems (electrical power from either the aircraft, or separate batteries, is too unreliable).
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Botch,
Why did you use the adjective CAD/CAM for explosive? Maybe my definition of CAD and CAM are different from yours?
Mike
 
mcad64 said:
Botch,
Why did you use the adjective CAD/CAM for explosive? Maybe my definition of CAD and CAM are different from yours?
Mike
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On the previous page someone else mentioned this, it was a Senior Moment on my part; meant to write "CAD/PAD".
 
Huh. When you call up the Calculator app on your iPhone, then tip it sideways into Landscape mode, it becomes a scientific calculator.
Nobody tells me anything.
 
Botch said:
Huh. When you call up the Calculator app on your iPhone, then tip it sideways into Landscape mode, it becomes a scientific calculator.
Nobody tells me anything.
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Ha, don't feel bad, I didn't know that either. (Though I've only had an iphone for ~8 mo)
 
And for reasons that make no sense to anyone there is no native calculator app for the iPad.
 
Botch said:
Huh. When you call up the Calculator app on your iPhone, then tip it sideways into Landscape mode, it becomes a scientific calculator.
Nobody tells me anything.
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Huh...just found out my Samsung(that I have owned for a year) phone does the same thing!! I don't get out much!!
 
Most of us have seen wasps or spiders mugging for weather cameras scattered about the US; Great Falls MT had a much more appealing visitor:
 
This is a 1997 interview of George Carlin, by Jon Stewart, that I really enjoyed.

 
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