Ja WorsleyRick, I bet your pardon, please read my private message, it seems we might have a cross intention here, I did not mean it the way you seem to have read it, sorry mate!
Ja WorsleyWork work work. (it should be made illegal)
Why mate, I love my job, don’t you? Photo/journalism focused on Military and Wildlife issues is great and the travel, wow, the places I have been!
Ja WorsleyMy debt to you all, the Stringbag was a truely wonderful plane, it is my wish that before I depart this mortal coil, I have the chance to see one.
I know I am pushing my luck here, but what is the stall point of a Swordfish? Could it glide some distance even loaded with say, six, depthcharges? My physics logic says that it is possible but not for very far.
Ja WorsleyPerhaps the Martin Baker seats are so good that they never need testing 😉
I must admit though, having an Assult rifle with me in the middle of nowhere does have more apeal that just having a pistol.
From what I have seen, most seats has leg connections that pull the legs in before the seat leaves the frame, is this right? If it is why doesn’t the F-14 have it and if it does, WHY THE HECK WASN’T IT CONNECTED WHEN I HAD MY FLIGHT?
Doesnt the F-111 use a pod system? i didnt think there were ejections seats in them, the crew sits in a pod that blows clear of the aircraft….
Entropy: Yes mate they do have a pod and like I said, we’ve never ever had to use it, this is why I am looking for pics from American sources of it in use. This system is probably the most expencive survival system in use today, that is why we don’t mess with it on our Pigs.
Ja WorsleyIn the Raptors case, the AF/LM found during the flight testing several parts that had to be redesigned. GAO does not want to repeat this mistake.
Aurel: So basically you are saying that the USAF Raptors are very similar to our Collins class subs, the F-35 program is now suffering due to the problems of the purchase before it, in a similar way to our AWD’s are suffering as a dircect result of the problems from the Collins class? In a way that does make sence but I can’t concure with your statement…
they even present the JSF-programme as the way ahead.
it is well known that the F-35 program as a whole has suffered many set backs, thus proving that the JSF concept is a viable investment can not be wholly true could it? And with the many member nations now starting to have doubts about the product that they receive and their work share in it, you can clearly see that the entire program is a farce. I don’t believe for an instant that the USAF/USN/USMC would waste their money on a flop, but the government is now starting to show an underside that is dark and forboding.
Basically the way I see it, the US government is looking at ways to channel money from other areas into it’s Iraq/Middle Eastern efforts. With the news today that the American government announced that it is worried about the oil reserves on a global scale, I would hate to see a war over the last remains of oil, sadly, since I am a realist, I believe that this war has already started and the current American government is the ones who are trying to take the biggest slice of the pie.
Not only will the JSF and Raptor programs suffer, many more things are going to suffer and I wonder what it’s going to take to shake people up and make them realise that there are other alternative fuels that are not as harmful to the environment. Perhaps we should start investing money into those rather than channel funds in to a country on the brink of self distruction and a global fuel reserve that is dying out.
Ja WorsleyThanks Rick, that’s the info I’ve been after. Which ships were the RoCN ones formerly? I know they’ve had extra armourment added in the form of Harpoon launchers on the top of the superstructure and a couple of other modifications.
Ja WorsleyWow thanks guys, there are some rather interesting pics out there aren’t there?
The first live ejection was made 13 January 1945 when a test pilot ejected from a Heinkel He280 prototype.
Djnik: mat I think you might be wrong, the Swedish had the ejection seat installed in the J-21 fighter during 1943, which they deemed it a must since the pilot could not clear the rather large prop aft of the cockpit in time in a normal bail out. I know the seat was tested a few times before it was pronounced serviceable, I have read the reports.
Keep them coming guys, I’d really like to see the ejection from a SHar and a Viking as well as the ejection sequence of the mighty F-111 Pigs (sure we have them down here but not one ejection has ever taken place, sadly we have lost a couple of crews but no ejections).
What is the general concensus here, is Martin Baker the best in the world? What would you prefer to be sitting on if you had to bail out?
Ja WorsleyAhhh good old Jack Fisher, not many people know this but the King knighted him for the Dreadnaught design, it was said that the king wispered in his ear “Now we can take all the world and especially win back the American Collony”!
Ja WorsleyI crossed a few decks in my time and I can tell you now the surface is a tar material similar (though not the same as) what you find on the road.
I had a chunck of it as a memory from my famous rid in the Tomcat, it came from USS Constellation. Ahhhh the memories!
Ja WorsleyLast I heard mate the Afghan army had a few UH-1H’s donated to them, apart from that there was nothing much left.
Nice pics as always, keep your head down over there won’t you! We do want you to report back!
Ja WorsleyNice pics alround but why is one posted twice?
Ja WorsleyThanks Flex
Ja WorsleyI’d like to know what happened to those women in the Feb 81 issue? Where are they now?
Ja WorsleyI read some time ago that the Russian nuke boats use some gold and other precious metals in their air filters and that these components were being stolen which as you can conculde is not a very good thing to do. As i recall it was on BBC.
Yes I remember seeing that and the skipper of one of the boats I was previlidged enough to have a trip on had standing orders to shoot anyone caught stealing any machinery. But since he was a well liked Skipper no one ever did anything bad, I remember hearing that he personally supplied all the vodka on board from his own pockets.
I know that these filters are quite big but my argument above was that also during longer space flights,for example the Apollo missions,some kind of air filter was used and as you know what the size of these spacecraft was,why would it be hard to manufacture something today that could fit into an SSK?
I don’t doubt that smaller units could be manufactured, the only problem is maintaining them. Smaller units need to run at a higher RPM to push the air through the sub, as opposed to those larger units. The equation is something like a 1/2m diameter fan needs only to turn at 150 RPM to provide enough air throughout a 30m boat, by decreasing the size of the fan, you decrease the size of it’s effective area, thus you need to make it turn faster to push the air to the extremities of the boat and working in the engine room where it gets quite hot does require a little more air!
When submarine snorts,does it use some type of a snorkel like device to get fresh air or it surfaces completely?
I take it you haven’t seen this system in use. No problem I’ll see if I can find a pic for you, hang on (runs away looking in odd places). Well I didn’ty find any decent pics but heres a website that tells you how Snokeling works.
Our submarines in the Navy of Serbia and Montenegro cannot even dive anymore,so we have no problems with fresh air
Well that certainly would help with the air situation. I also hear that none of their boats are sea worthy anymore either, can you confirm this?
Are you still serving on subs or?
No sadly, but I do miss it. As a result of my time in, I came out of the navy with Agrophobia, that is fear of crowds. These days I tend to get a bit angry if there are too many people around me.
I am jelous
You have every right to be, you are after all, only human. For god made man and he was happy, but then the war with Satan started and he needed a sneaky son of a gun to really do damage and he created the Submariner, mwhahahahaha! “SRD”
Just kidding mate, I had fun when I was in, but I am having more fun now that I am out!
Ja WorsleyDJnik: mate your chemistry equasion is bang on, yes nuke boat do have some heavy scrubbers for the air filtration units but they are ver big and cumbersome, the reason that SSk’s don’t have them is because of their size. Reguardless, they do still have to Snort every five days just to change the air in the tub.
When I was on HMAS Onslow, we snorted every two days and had oxygen candels in between. One HMAS Collins, we had a five day air supply but snorted every three anyway.
As for the ISS, they have something completely different and revolutionary, I don’t know what it is but it’s deeply classified in the US military files, I must conclude that they have something new that is on the new Seawolf boats, as most of the other systems are declassified
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