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Lay on my back thinking about others who had damaged themselves! I've seen you like that on a dining-in night mate ! :E |
Originally Posted by India Four Two
(Post 10306281)
dook,
I'm also 5' 11" and sitting thigh length is within spec, but when I sat in an F6, I couldn't see how I could eject with my knees intact. Were the seat rails inclined? I was also impressed by how high up I was! |
Thigh length varies with the aeroplane. They all vary.
Designers will usually work on the ninety-fifth percentile of human measurements. Sitting in a particular aeroplane it often appears that you won't clear the instrument pane and/or windscreen rail. I had this impression in the Lightning but flew it. Newt might tell you more since he threw one away. He's about my height but nowadays bigger in girth. :E |
Actually Mate it was a Jaguar and I did not throw it away.......it tried to kill me! Just like you did at a dining in night lol! |
Need memory pill.
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The Mk 1C seat in the Canberra did have a cushion, filled with incompressible and supposedly potable water. It was still uncomfortable, and on long flights the water was known to freeze.
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The ergonomics of early British ejection sets was problematical.
Just one example: attachment points for upper body ( "Shoulder') restraints being low down on the back. Tightening these straps up resulted in pre-compression of the inter-vertebral discs,thus removing some of the shock absorption provided within the spinal column . Another: with slightly loosened straps though , going for the top handle could lift the torso off the seat, so the seat was under way accelerating before hitting the base of the spine. There were other issues.......... |
Originally Posted by newt
(Post 10306913)
Actually Mate it was a Jaguar and I did not throw it away.......it tried to kill me! |
In a different way to mine.
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Bill Park was 51 when he pulled the handle on the Have Blue prototype- his 4th! ejection. He was inured, but likely not age related.
https://www.f-117a.com/HB1.html I do wonder if 4 actual ejections (not testing related/on purpose) is a record? I know some late WWII Germans had multiples and a few test and fast jet drivers had multiples, including a few F-8 Crusader pilots with 3. |
Not the oldest, but my friends' Dad was, I think for a while, the youngest to use a bang seat as a young Midshipman who had reason to get out of a JP pretty sharpish.... his event in the mid/late 60s was listed on the excellent 'ejection history' website that has now been taken down.
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Wayback Machine
Originally Posted by NickB
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the excellent 'ejection history' website that has now been taken down.
The Wayback Machine seems to have archived the site - this is the usual case as far as I can see. 30 Oct 2014 - Just after site is stated to have been last updated https://web.archive.org/web/20141030...istory.org.uk/ 3 July 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140703...istory.org.uk/ |
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