On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 2:37 PM, frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Adam Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> And don't forget the downward firing ejection seat ;-) > > Okay, that could be seen as a design flaw... > >>:-0 > > cheers, > frank > --
It wasn't a flaw at the time, the only way to be sure those early seats cleared the tail. The Starfighters mostly got refitted with normal seats once a true zero/zero capable seat was invented (as those would clear the tail at full speed as well). But the old seats at low altitude made ejecting hairy, you had to roll inverted before punching, while crashing. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
