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Real Pilot Seat for Real Combat Flight Simulator Pilots

YouCanEatMe — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:49:30 EDT

@Hello_Newman: Rig it to fire you through the skylight and into the pool. Hell, I'd pull the handle all day long.

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Real Pilot Seat for Real Combat Flight Simulator Pilots

Hello_Newman — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:33:57 EDT

I like it, the only downside is you have to play all flight sim games under a specially installed skylight big enough to fit through in case you're landing in bad weather, or get shot down in a game. Good motivation to improve your pilot skills though.

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Vlad1v0st0K — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:20:21 EDT

If I am not mistaken, Russians were using system with metal flange in front for ejection from glorious fighter-jet at 900 of your miles-per-hours. Such a system, I am beliving, was for true heroes of revolution. In Russia, plane is ejecting you!

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solOptimus — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:24:49 EDT

Good thing it has the canopy breaker, don't wanna be playin MS Flight Sim and end up like Goose.

PS: To close for missiles, I'm switching to guns.

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diverguy — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:40:36 EDT

I thought I recognized that first seat. It's the same one used in the CF100 and the legendary CF105 Arrow.

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Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy! — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:42:19 EDT

@DeadWriter: Now it's just a matter of convincing them to sit in that chair.

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strider_mt2k — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:24:33 EDT

@shenanigans61: All winners in my book too!
(armchair aviation enthusiast)

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Worf — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:06:08 EDT

Pricey... you can get used seats far cheaper than that, and more modern ones as well - typically around $5k for a seat with everything minus rockets and shine...

Worf

Real Pilot Seat for Real Combat Flight Simulator Pilots

Mandatory_Field — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:54:32 EDT

Very very cool. Hell I don't play FPS or Flight sims and I want one.

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DeadWriter — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:03:41 EDT

I know a lot of parents that will consider this as a way of ejecting their ageing chicks from the nest.

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shenanigans61 — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:42:55 EDT

@strider_mt2k: That's because Lockheed's Advanced Development Programs Unit made it. ;)

That, and the P-38, P-80 U2, RS-71, F-117, F-22, and the F-35 JSF. Not to mention hundreds of others that never left the design phase, or were canceled otherwise.

Oh, I heart Habu. :)

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jonboy05 — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:05:56 EDT

This early version of the ejection seat is not the most fun ride you'd ever experience. It shot pilots out of the cockpit at over 9Gs, more than double what modern aviators experience. On top of that, you had to manually blow the canopy first, or you'd be blasted into a big piece of plexiglass that doesn't shatter cleanly. Scary, scary stuff...

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Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy! — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:27:15 EDT

Oh, and with the actual ejector, just in case junior decides to get too out of control.

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Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy! — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:26:52 EDT

If I ever have a kid, that is what his/her car seat will look like.

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vote Obama — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:57:37 EDT

the XB-70 capsule - to stop your face getting ripped off by the air blast...

[www.ejectionsite.com]

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Out2gtcha — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:44:14 EDT

@strider_mt2k: Yeah I always loved the Star-fighter ever since dad took me to see the Right Stuff when it came out in the theater. Dad was pissed because we went to the late show, and I don't think he realized it was over 3 hrs....

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strider_mt2k — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:31:36 EDT

The technology behind ejection systems is impressive.
Reading about it could take as much time as reading about aviation itself, practically!

The f 104's downward firing system is interesting.
Hell that whole plane is something else...

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vote Obama — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:14:17 EDT

not wishing to sound like a smart ass, but in one program for the RAF Harrier training system we had to put the deactivated seat in a training vehicle - the price was then close to $1mill. But that was because the unit had to function exactly like the real thing (to save the pilots life) whicch costing more than 5 million+ to train is then of value.

The seat is an actual aircraft - when you think about it. The high Mach escape systems were the most amazing vehicles, XB-70 SR-71, etc.

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Out2gtcha — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:13:55 EDT

Saaaaaaawhhhheeeeet. Not gonna spend 15k but sweet non-th-less.
Hell fixed wing pilot seems to be one of the few places I shine in the FPS games I play that involve vehicles like the BF series.

Out2gtcha