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A-6 crash after launch? OBTW
"John Carrier" wrote...
One of the peculiarities of the A-6 was its lack of a command ejection system. There was some kind of reverse (perverse) logic in the community that had sufficient following to keep it that way (IIRC) for the life of the aircraft. Part of it had to do with the lack of automatic canopy sequencing. You could go through the canopy or after the canopy, but not while it was in transit (because of the forward bow). If one Crewmember hit the canopy jettison while the other pulled the ejection handle, it was bad news for at least one of them -- both if the canopy got hung up on the first seat... IIRC, command ejection was part of the A-6F proposal. |
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They had some footage of some cat launches gone wrong. In one an A-6 took
off the waist catapult of a carrier and started losing altitude almost immediately. Then something really big fell off the plane, it started to roll, and the pilots ejected at very low altitude. The pilot was Rick "Twig" LaBranche, who is now a CDR and has the distinction of being the CO of the last operational Tomcat squadron (VF-31 flying F-14Ds at least until September). _____________ José Herculano |
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A-6 crash after launch?
"Allen Epps" wrote in message
... This the S-1 video through the wave you were looking at? http://tinyurl.com/jjjo5 Pugs I assume that the S-1 did not have ejection seats? JD |
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"Allen Epps" wrote...
This the S-1 video through the wave you were looking at? I've seen an A-7 launch through a similar wave off Midway in the northern Pacific. I think we were all surprised when he flew out the other side! |
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"John Weiss" jrweiss98155nospamatnospamcomcastdotnospamnet wrote in message ... "Allen Epps" wrote... This the S-1 video through the wave you were looking at? I've seen an A-7 launch through a similar wave off Midway in the northern Pacific. I think we were all surprised when he flew out the other side! I was just thinking the S-1 was lucky they had recips. I thought for sure a jet would flame out! |
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A-6 crash after launch? OBTW
"John Weiss" jrweiss98155nospamatnospamcomcastdotnospamnet wrote in message ... "John Carrier" wrote... One of the peculiarities of the A-6 was its lack of a command ejection system. There was some kind of reverse (perverse) logic in the community that had sufficient following to keep it that way (IIRC) for the life of the aircraft. Part of it had to do with the lack of automatic canopy sequencing. You could go through the canopy or after the canopy, but not while it was in transit (because of the forward bow). If one Crewmember hit the canopy jettison while the other pulled the ejection handle, it was bad news for at least one of them -- both if the canopy got hung up on the first seat... I think a canopy interlock would have been simple to engineer. Certainly part of the engineering to retrofit command ejection. R / John |
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Allen Epps wrote
This the S-1 video through the wave you were looking at? http://tinyurl.com/jjjo5 What is (was) an S-1? From the web: The skipping of the P-1 designation in the 1962 Joint designation scheme was most likely due to the fact that it was convenient to redesignate the P2V, P3V, P4Y, and P5M to P-2, P-3, P-4, and P-5, respectively. 28. Similar to note 27, the S-1 designation was most likely skipped out of the convenience of renaming the S2F to S-2 and continuing from there. Bob Moore S-2F NAS Kingsville 1959 |
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On 5/27/06 5:27 PM, in article ,
"José Herculano" wrote: They had some footage of some cat launches gone wrong. In one an A-6 took off the waist catapult of a carrier and started losing altitude almost immediately. Then something really big fell off the plane, it started to roll, and the pilots ejected at very low altitude. The pilot was Rick "Twig" LaBranche, who is now a CDR and has the distinction of being the CO of the last operational Tomcat squadron (VF-31 flying F-14Ds at least until September). _____________ José Herculano Twig's STILL CO? I would have thought that he was done by now. --Woody |
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