And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The B-47 and B-52 had downward firing ejection seats for crew members stationed on the lower level. Early F104 Starfighters had downward firing ejector seats too. Al_in_Ottawa
KC-135 and E-3 had hatches in the floor through which to bail out, time and conditions permitting. Dark humor said the first guy out would clear all the antennas off the bottom of the fuselage for the rest of the crew.
It drops out of the bottom? It looks like a Bond movie disposing of a bad guy
ReplyDeleteBad guys go out thru the roof...
ReplyDeleteThis was a DARPA program testing advanced concepts, the ability to conduct airborne ERCCs.
Or dynamic entrance.
ReplyDeleteB-47 Radar/Navigator/Bombardier position. My father was injured in accident with one of those downward ejection seats while in SAC.
ReplyDeleteI can believe that. That picture looks like that guy's about to get his bell rung by that dome or whatever the hell it is.
DeleteThe B-47 and B-52 had downward firing ejection seats for crew members stationed on the lower level. Early F104 Starfighters had downward firing ejector seats too.
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Air Force 2?
ReplyDeleteFine for high altitude exit. Not so much on takeoff or landing.
ReplyDeleteIt's his heavy cast iron testicles pulling him downwards.
ReplyDeleteKC-135 and E-3 had hatches in the floor through which to bail out, time and conditions permitting. Dark humor said the first guy out would clear all the antennas off the bottom of the fuselage for the rest of the crew.
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