Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Ejection seats Message-ID: <1991Feb12.014459.9718@cbnews.att.com> Date: 12 Feb 91 01:44:59 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 23 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Mary Shafer Paul Tomblin wrote: Personally, I'd prefer ejection seats with canopy cutters. (Then again, I'd probably prefer the "Escape Capsule" proposed for the F-111) No, you wouldn't. Even the Air Force claims that the capsule system is inadequate and lead to too many injuries. We've been testing some improved parachutes for the F-111 (dropping capsules from our B-52). Based on what they've seen in the testing, our pilots recommend _not_ flying in the F-111 (not that I've had any offers, mind you). (It's not a proposed system--they've had the capsule since the original prototype flew in the 60s.) -- Mary Shafer shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov ames!skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov!shafer NASA Ames Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA Of course I don't speak for NASA "A MiG at your six is better than no MiG at all"--Unknown US fighter pilot