In reply to Woody :
She helps but it still looks very much like a Mustang.
Still vacationing?
In reply to Woody :
She helps but it still looks very much like a Mustang.
Still vacationing?
Only $17,000.
In reply to 914Driver :
That seems like quite a bit of plane for the money, even in those colors. Now I have to look at kitplanes, dangit...
In reply to nderwater :
I saw a really clean early 90's Vanagon Westie on the way home yesterday, made me search for a few. 
Early F-104s had downward ejection seats. They were afraid the seat wouldn't clear the T tail.
taken in Frankfort Michigan by Jon Kells at approximately 1900 EDT (2300Z) AUGUST 5 2019
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slantvaliant said:
While not the same car as the one that Wally posted, I've got the idea.
Enormous box flares look great on the Mustang II.
Unrelated, blah, blah, blah.
Appleseed said:Early F-104s had downward ejection seats. They were afraid the seat wouldn't clear the T tail.
Bailing out at low altitude requires a half roll
Early model B52s had three ejection seats on the top floor of the plane. pilot and copilot were left-right and a third position was on the centerline. Unfortunately the first model ad an exrta-tall tail. The tail on lower models was shortened after several crew ejections went...badly.
They also had 2 downstairs positions that fired down and there was at least one incident involving a misfire on landing that shot a crewmember into the tarmac. Just ahead of the front wheel trucks.
These from my dad who was in SAC and worked on the hound dog missle systems that flew on some of them.
An old timer once told me that the drill for ejecting on a Carrier requires a roll and a yank. Early transitions to canopy eject would snap roll, yank and drill themselves into the ocean.
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