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Old 22nd Feb 2014, 01:21
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There was one tale the armourers used to tell of the Belgian F104 starfighters, specifically their ejection seats.

The story goes that a Belgian armourer had decided he was sick of life, so he wanted to commit suicide in a spectacular fashion. He decided to climb into the cockpit of an F104 on the line, pull all the seat pins out then pull the yellow and black handle.

seems the first aircraft he tried the seat failed to fire. So he got out, went to teh one next door and tried again. Same result, so he went down the whole line with no success.

His next action was to walk into the line hut and, plonking all the seat pins he'd removed on the desk, raised snags on every aircraft.

As the F104 was fitted with a downward firing seat, there are some holes in the story but it's still a good one
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