Originally Posted by
NutLoose
Or as in the F-111 it ejects the cockpit as a capsule.
Except when it doesn't! So says the story of the 'uncommanded (sic) partial ejection' where the control lines happily severed as per sequence one, but the capsule failed to leave the aircraft as per sequence two. Apparently General Dynamics engineering got a mention on the tapes on the way down..