well fella, you know where there is a nother live shackleham!;)
Hi all.
http://www.gatwick-aviation-museum.co.uk/lightning/mainsite.htm
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lol, fair point, yes we did, and it has streched 5 blokes with over 30,000 hours of Lightning knowledge, and very good resources, to the absolute limits and back again. Even we couldn’t have managed a Jag.. you could easily get a nice hunter for 20k.
Nash, tim is absolutely spot on mate. seriously, find something else such as a Hunter. The Jag comes from the same complexity stable as Tonkas. For a volunteer project forget it. As for a leaping heap…mmmmmm, one word Pegasus!!!
oh just marvelous that!!!. Im sure the observer would be happy as larry sitting there waiting for the cockpit to fill up through his hatch, before the system would go off. no wonder they changed it for the Bucc!:rolleyes:
lol. just a bit! so our mk4 seats in the faw2 were fully automated under water too?, but needed cabin pressure/sea water equlisation to operate?
no need to appologise fella:), it wasnt directed at your post specifically. interesting stuff re the earlier stuff like the vixen, you learn every day. I didnt actually realise the Vixen had the capability, being that I never have noticed it, nice to know it has it though eh. I noticed it on the bucc the first time I was ever upside down with my head under the observers seat! pins all in of course;) 😀 Althouth the first guy to notice it on XN923 a few years earlier, can testify to it, whilst he vacated the aircraft in a millisecond from 10 feet up with no ladder, after something started ticking on the seat!!:D whilst the seat explosives and canopy guns were all already deactivated, and the gun rocket etc removed, he managed to set the lever off from said air bottle in the earlier posts, with his watch I think it was. The bottle was still pressurised, and set the seat timer off, which started ticking rather loudly and quickly. Brown trouser moment, fully grown man turns into hare!
The underwater firing sequence was irrespective of cabin pressure, since it is simply activated by a pressure differential on a valve diaphram in the port open to the outer skin. The pressure upstream of the diaphram is provided by the same air bottle. Once the pressure at 13 feet overcomes the valve, voila!
they were fired by air pressure once at a depth of 13 feet. fully automatic from a static line in the skin sensing the water. the bottle going off would release the pins and allow the seat to be fire upward and out, enough for the the crew water safety stems to inflate and carry the crew to the surface. the normal timer unit would release the seat harness and inflate two baldders via c02 bottles, the seat would obviously then sink, whislt the crew floated to the surface. It was designed for crews having to ditch the aiframe in a controlled manner
yes, the canopy rail is displaced aft by two swing arm levers, activated by a gun each side This causes the canopy rail to displace aft and upward about an inch, which dissengages it from a dozen or so airframe lugs, and pushes it into the airflow. it leaves front end first, and the mdc goes via a timer, once the rails are dissengaged, and the canopy is then clear on its way. The MDC’s were necessary after several incidents where the S1 canopy failed to clear the ejection path in time. If you look at the seats on the S1 there is a guilotene on each head box, to smash the canopy if it failed to completely clear. Im not sure of these are still on the S2? The escape system on the bucc is pretty impressive, it is even fatty sensitive:D, with a weight dial on the seat pan.
not that it matters one jot what colour 715 is painted, but the picture in the link of XL164 in 85……pink?
its a wave guide
nice chocks! :rolleyes:
its an old photo from Binbrook 86-87
matt, you have a pm