What's wrong with this Tomcat?

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-02-21 11:05pm

http://www.keymags.co.uk/dcforum/User_f ... fa65ba.jpg

Next time- when the front-seater is doing a negative-G maneuver, LOOK at what you're grabbing onto.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-02-21 11:13pm

The cockpit is open. That can't be very good.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-02-21 11:14pm

Good thing he has a helmet on...

Ted · Post by **Ted** » 2003-02-21 11:15pm

The back seater fucking EJECTED!

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-02-22 12:05am

Is there anyone in the fucking cockpit? WTF?

Post by **Kuja** » 2003-02-22 12:11am

Looks like Goose hit the wrong button.

Jim Raynor · Post by **Jim Raynor** » 2003-02-22 12:12am

WTF?! Where did you get this from?

VF5SS · Post by **VF5SS** » 2003-02-22 12:13am

That was really bad, IG-88

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-02-22 12:17am

kojikun wrote:Is there anyone in the fucking cockpit? WTF?

I'd say there is, seeing as you can still see the damn pilot in the fucking cockpit.

Post by **Kuja** » 2003-02-22 12:27am

VF5SS wrote:That was really bad, IG-88

Come now,tellme you didn't get a laugh out of that one.

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-02-22 12:29am

F-14 is a two-seater. I think his partner got ejected...

I just hope his parachute worked.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-02-22 12:33am

i dont see a pilot.. o_o

Post by **Kuja** » 2003-02-22 12:38am

kojikun wrote:i dont see a pilot.. o_o

koji, look very carefully right behind the end of the forward canopy. If you can't see the pilot's head, you need you vision checked.

VF5SS · Post by **VF5SS** » 2003-02-22 12:40am

IG-88E wrote:
VF5SS wrote:That was really bad, IG-88
Come now,tellme you didn't get a laugh out of that one.

Actually, I was thinking about doing a Topgun joke... Thankfully, good taste prevailed

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-02-22 12:41am

THATS the pilots helmet? Boxy. Originally thought it was part of the chair. pic too small i guess.

Post by **Kuja** » 2003-02-22 12:42am

VF5SS wrote:Actually, I was thinking about doing a Topgun joke... Thankfully, good taste prevailed

Actually, the first thing I wanted to put down was "GOOOOOOOOSE!"

Enlightenment · Post by **Enlightenment** » 2003-02-22 12:43am

The backseater is never going to live that down...

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-02-22 12:48am

Ejection system must have been set to manual; otherwise they should have both been punched out. Good thing, since otherwise we'd be down another F-14.

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2003-02-22 01:33am

Sea Skimmer wrote:Ejection system must have been set to manual; otherwise they should have both been punched out. Good thing, since otherwise we'd be down another F-14.

That may not be the case. I've never flown an F-14, but on the T-38 the ejection seats were independent of each other.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-02-22 01:43am

F-14s have some linkage settings.

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-02-22 02:21am

Wicked Pilot wrote:
Sea Skimmer wrote:Ejection system must have been set to manual; otherwise they should have both been punched out. Good thing, since otherwise we'd be down another F-14.
That may not be the case. I've never flown an F-14, but on the T-38 the ejection seats were independent of each other.

Thats so the instructor can dump the n00b if he gets angry...

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-02-22 02:37am

Wicked Pilot wrote:
Sea Skimmer wrote:Ejection system must have been set to manual; otherwise they should have both been punched out. Good thing, since otherwise we'd be down another F-14.
That may not be the case. I've never flown an F-14, but on the T-38 the ejection seats were independent of each other.

That's probably because its and old and fairly cheep plane meant only for training, and the trainee is more likely to punch out when its unnecessary then to wait too long.. All multi seat combat aircraft have a linked setting. IIRC in most US combat twin seater the pilot cannot be ejected with the back seater still in as they would be hit by the front seats rocket exhaust. The back seater alone can however eject

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-02-22 04:01am

My response upon seeing that pic:

Photoshop.

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-02-22 04:32am

Shinova wrote:My response upon seeing that pic:

Photoshop.

*sigh*

it's not a photoshop.

http://www.keymags.co.uk/dcforum/DCForumID2/6730.html

The forum from whence it came.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-02-22 10:00am

IG-88E wrote:
VF5SS wrote:That was really bad, IG-88
Come now,tellme you didn't get a laugh out of that one.

Actually I got a good laugh out of that one. That Tomcat happens to belong to VF-213 Blacklions. That squadron was stationed on my ship during the last deployment I was on. Most of the people that knew anything about that squadron called them the "sealions" instead of the Blacklions because they put so many planes in the water.

I swear that squadron is jinxed. Besides the funny stuff like the picture and a couple of costly but mostly harmless planes in the water fiascos, I know of at least two fatal crashes involving that squadron. On my last cruise one plane came in too low and smashed into the back of the ship. Some of the plane skidded across the flight deck while the rest fell onto the faintail. The pilot died but I think the RIO survived.

The other accident involved one of the USN's first female fighter pilots. Again I think she died but her RIO survived. There was a big deal about this one in the media for a lot of political reasons. Personally I alwasy thought she had the bad luck to go to that squadron.

I'm thinking that part of the reason the radar operator survived in the two crashes I mentioned might be because they have their hands free and are a little quicker on the eject than the pilots?