Ejection seat pins in aircraft with loos and galleys
I once heard of an enterprising exchange type who was on the way back from a 'boot shaped land' and somewhere over the Alps when they had an emergency state poo. With the brown caption flashing our intrepid aviator was faced with a dilemma. Go in the immersion suit and face a rather awkward chat with the Squippers or choose the easy option and dice with the reaper. They pinned the seat, unstrapped, took off their LSJ and goon bag and did the deed in a handy sick bag. As the mighty grey fin wasn't equipped with Andrex they used the next best thing..and on return plopped into the squips for new gloves... 
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The mighty S-3 Viking with 4 ejection seats - we regularly 'safed' the seats during flight to swap seats for students or to reseat the avionics boxes in the 'tunnel'.
No pins required two simple levers - one to select single or group shoot and one to safe each seat.
No pins required two simple levers - one to select single or group shoot and one to safe each seat.
F-4 Phantom
This guy has his pin (the safety pin
) not insserted in his seat.
As you can see, even in a Phantom there was place to shift position in flight.
Not my picture, thanks to the unknown flight member who took this shot.
) not insserted in his seat.As you can see, even in a Phantom there was place to shift position in flight.
Not my picture, thanks to the unknown flight member who took this shot.
