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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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Spent many hours in that position in the back seat of an F-4.
Only there was no door to crawl out of.
It was really bad trying to do that in Saudi in August...

As a Crew Chief, I approve of this message.
It only takes a couple of minutes to yank the back bucket from an F4 and you crew chiefs would wait till it was done.

Normaly it was R&R Paso for comms all nite every nite to FOM.

I ain't buying it.
 
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Let's see if I remember the drill it was in the 1970's and I was normally drunk.

Check seat pins.

Take 9/16 wrench to disconnect gas line from drogue choot cart.
(Can't remember if we pulled the cartridge out or not)
Jump in and disconnect rocket motor lanyard from under seat.

Turn around and shove 12 inch flat blade screw driver between parachute riser attachments and move manual release handle to seperate survival gear.

Toss out survival gear and screw driver. Shove shoulder under parachute and shove up. Lift and Rotate seat bucket out forward set on top of steal toes to prevent damage to rocket motor.

Lift and rotate seat out over canopy sill. Check for fod and tools, done.

Faster to do it than bitch about or type it.
 
Let's see if I remember the drill it was in the 1970's and I was normally drunk.

Check seat pins.

Take 9/16 wrench to disconnect gas line from drogue choot cart.
(Can't remember if we pulled the cartridge out or not)
Jump in and disconnect rocket motor lanyard from under seat.

Turn around and shove 12 inch flat blade screw driver between parachute riser attachments and move manual release handle to seperate survival gear.

Toss out survival gear and screw driver. Shove shoulder under parachute and shove up. Lift and Rotate seat bucket out forward set on top of steal toes to prevent damage to rocket motor.

Lift and rotate seat out over canopy sill. Check for fod and tools, done.

Faster to do it than bitch about or type it.

Martin Baker?
 
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Don't think I would care to have that rocket motor ignited under my ass.
Well they had that sorted out pretty well. The lanyard that yanked out the sear for the rocket motor ignition cartridge as long enough that the seat was up in the windstream so legs didnt get burned.

The rocket catapult in the back between the seat rails powered by three pancake charges and ignited by the top charge cartridge basically shoved the seat strait up for the first (12 ?) Few feet before the rocket motor under the seat powered it up about 200 feet.

Very reliable but 14g's on the crew member's back and killed more maintainers than the clap.

There by the widdow maker designation.