KCBM T-38C went down 18 Jan 07

[JFReservist]

"We're talkin' the best 1960s seat money can buy...good, but some 18 year old dude fresh out of tech school is still packin' your chute (sts!!)."

Fury, You're kidding. Right?

 

[Oh-ryan]

Fury220,

I could care less about your comments at this point. What I want to know is who the heck comes home from a night at the watering hole and thinks to themselves, "Let me see what the chucks on flightinfo.com are up to?"

For heaven's sake man!?! Here are some more constructive things to do in your drunken haze (in no particular order):
1. pop a porno into the DVD player / surf porn on the internet
d. call an ex-girlfriend and then hang up when she answers (repeat as necessary)
a. heat up a hot pocket (remember to take it out the microwave and actually eat it)
IV. rub one out (repeat as necessary/possible)
4. split the atom (again)
2. drink some more
y. watch the "set it and forget it" rotisserie informercial and proceed to buy five or six of the darn things
ii. vomit (repeat as necessary)

Or just about anything else is acceptable. Please get your drunken priorities in order.

 

[AdlerDriver]

When in doubt, bail out!!!

Here's another 2 cents about that: Back when I was busy logging the first few of the whopping 35 hours of single engine recip time I have, I used to think the same thing. The seat seemed like a pretty good thing during UPT too.

It's a totally different story after 2000 hours in an Eagle. The last thing you want to contemplate is jumping out. "I can recover this spin" or "I can deal with this flight control issue" or "I can recover from this misorientation caused 600 knot dive", etc. etc. It's why we still lose an occasional guy to an out of the envelope attempt. When you get way experienced and way comfy in a fighter, jumping out becomes a nightmare scenario. Those handles will save your life but they represent a trip out of the very familiar surroundings you've come to know and love. Not an easy thing. I can't remember a single sortie when I sat on that seat and actually thought while I was flying - "F#ckin'-A, good thing I'm riding along on an Aces-2 today!!"

Obviously riding it in is the worst - but only slightly less worse is a mode-3 Aces 2 ejection from FL350. Nothing like a 20K' drop, sitting in the seat, trailing a small chute, facing earthward hoping all the "gerbils" in the seat start running around the wheel at the right time when you hit 15K'. Sh!t has to be going wayyyy bad for that to even come up on the radar scope of possibilities. There are black and white scenarios that we all hope are the one we get if our number comes up. The gray ones $uck.

It would take alot more than "doubt" to make me want to do that. Come on! Who hasn't safed up the seat in the middle of the North Atlantic on an ocean crossing thinking, "I'll take my chances in the jet - those ice bergs look big and cold" (especially when it's time for Mr. Piddle Pack to make an appearance).

Cheers.

 

[Steeler Fan]

I'm glad those guys are OK.

Is Tam still working at the Little Kitchen?


Go Steelers!

 

[JimNtexas]

I always the F-111 capsule was pretty cool, as long as you landed it on something fairly soft. Certainly it made going fast that much more fun, knowing that if you punched out you wouldn't be tore apart.

The stick(s) became bilge pumps when it transformed from an really good airplane into a so-so boat.

 

[tmac3333]

I'll answer 2 relevant questions after the myriad of bs I've seen in this thread. Fury...no offense dude, but just stfu.
1) It was not a new seat. Old T-38 seat. No UPT T-38s have upgraded their seats maybe in 2008 or 2009 at the earliest.
2) The Little Kitchen is still here...don't know anyone by the name of Tam working there.

 

[Fury220]

The stick(s) became bilge pumps when it transformed from an really good airplane into a so-so boat.

Kinda cool. Pay extra for that option?

 

[Slug]

Kitchen update

Tam retired from waitstaffing.

The other two girls who worked there (Faye and Theresa??????) went to work across the road at a different "kitchen" when management changed.

The "kitchen" is still there though.


Slug

 

[talondriver]

I'm glad those guys are OK.

Is Tam still working at the Little Kitchen?


Go Steelers!

Tam left a looong time ago.

 

[talondriver]

Tam retired from waitstaffing.

The other two girls who worked there (Faye and Theresa??????) went to work across the road at a different "kitchen" when management changed.

The "kitchen" is still there though.


Slug

Fay is back at the Kitchen. Teresa became the manager at the local Sonics. Wow...we need to get a life.

As for the new T-38C ejection seats...

Laughlin is suppose to get the new Martin Baker seats first. Supposedly, sometime this spring.