Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Yorktown 240th anniversary. F22 & Rafale. The Rafale were on a circumnavigation France > Tahiti > Hawaii > US > France.
I'm not sure how well this ejection seat will save you when only a few hundred feet off the ground. Half the plane is jet engine! Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Roll inverted before ejecting. They changed at some point so you had to remember which model you were flying
Boy! That brings back some fun days! Too bad that they couldn't have photo'd the airplane over that dark background.
Not any difference, Taz, they were great airplanes no matter what color they were. As a very low time pilot I was able to test my skills in one without concern. It was unbreakable, wanted to fly as much as you did, and always returned to normal flight when you screwed up. It taught me skills that other airplanes could never do because I never worried about breaking something. Probably could have done better if I had instruction in what I was trying to do but I worked it out. Wonderful memories.
Perhaps a repost but the Yellow Perils were our Naval Academy Aviation Summer training craft. Learned what a "gosport" was, and how difficult it was by eye determining how far off the water of the Chesapeake Bay we were when trying to land. Fond memories. Best regards, Robert Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
I will have to look at my neighbor's and see if it has the downward ejection seat. I'm thinking it does not. Last weekend, I was walking around it with a friend, and I was pointing out that it is basically a missile with a cockpit on it.
Don- Seems like only the early XF-104 and F-104A had the downward ejection seats, Stanley B, C, and C-1 . These were replaced with upward ejecting Lockheed C-2 and some with S/R-2. The Cs, Gs, and Ss all had upward ejecting seats of various models.
36,000 rounds of GAU-8 30 mm ammunition would weigh ~55,000 lbs, which is a bit much for the 50,000 lb max take-off weight A-10.
When I had a flight in a restored N3N it was an odd experience to see that the primary fuselage structure was riveted aluminum angle instead of the welded steel tube frame of the N2S Stearman. Nice airplane to fly, though.
Grumman did not build any F-111 fighters. They converted General Dynamics F-111As to EF-IIIA Ravens. Marketing wienies gone ballistic.
Not with side by side seating. Grumman was prime contractor for F-111B production, the aircraft in the plan view, a Navy version of the F-111A, that never went into production. General Dynamics/Grumman actually built 7 F-111Bs, but still a marketing stretch. Grumman was actually likely biased, since they had an F-14 design ready to go using the same TF-30 engines, so were likely not highly motivated to make the modified GD design work.
