The Camera can capture some fantastic moments....II

[Blib]

[Hugo a Gogo]

Hugo a Gogo said:

LordGrover said:

shop! git aht!

testing does occur, yes


look familiar?

edit: look at the flap/stabiliser/wing thingmy/whatever Eric would call it at the back, no way it's in level flight

Edited by Hugo a Gogo on Thursday 19th April 15:50

[h0b0]

Hugo a Gogo said:

Shop!


Look familiar?

LordGrover said:

Am I doing this wrong?

[LordGrover]

h0b0 said:

Hugo a Gogo said:

Shop!


Look familiar?

LordGrover said:

Am I doing this wrong?

I believe you are. To my eye, different angles of same vehicle.
If you look at blib's link, the last shot shows the plane on the ground with parachutes deployed, just landing.

[Hugo a Gogo]

look at the comments on blib's link too

it's clearly the picture of the plane on the ground badly photoshopped to look like it's happening in flight, look at the 'halo' around the ejecting pilot, look at the flappy wing thing, no pictures of the plane in flight with the two occupants
and these were two identical ejector seat 'launches', one in the air flying at however many mph, and one on the ground, yet there is zero difference in the angles, the flames, the smoke etc etc
the plane was filmed on the ground, then flew later with no canopy

shop

now get out!

[Blib]

Hugo o gogo said:

look at the flappy wing thing,

Pistonheads, technical know how matters.

[Hugo a Gogo]

Blib said:

Hugo o gogo said:

look at the flappy wing thing,

Pistonheads, technical know how matters.

that was my irish cousin who said that, Hugo O'Gogo

[LordGrover]

... gone.

[K12beano]

FFS... Someone: put it on a conveyor belt!

[IforB]

Those 2 pictures are not from the same angle at all. Similar, but not identical. You can see much more of the anti spin strake at the bottom in the groun pic than you can in the airborne one.

There's also the point that there will be a testing program for both static ground tests (for zero zero seats) and airborne ones. So it's very unlikely that they didn't perform an airborne one.

[Ayahuasca]

I wonder if the victim pilot gets a reserve chute in case the test fails?

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[havoc]

Hugo a Gogo said:

Hugo a Gogo said:

LordGrover said:

shop! git aht!

testing does occur, yes


look familiar?

edit: look at the flap/stabiliser/wing thingmy/whatever Eric would call it at the back, no way it's in level flight

The rear stabilisers are probably at that angle to give the plane a little bit of negative g - i.e. to put the plane in an arc so that there's quicker separation between plane and seat.

[RedWhiteMonkey]

[Booey]

[Hugo a Gogo]

IforB said:

There's also the point that there will be a testing program for both static ground tests (for zero zero seats) and airborne ones. So it's very unlikely that they didn't perform an airborne one.

it's not a test, it's from a film

havoc said:

The rear stabilisers are probably at that angle to give the plane a little bit of negative g - i.e. to put the plane in an arc so that there's quicker separation between plane and seat.

ah right, and the pic just caught it at the perfect point it looked ALMOST identical to the ground shot, if you overlay the two pics in photoshop with 50% transparency you'll see the ejecting bloke and all his equipment are identical

oh, except the video clip from the straight-to-video film shows it in level flight

http://gizmodo.com/5330468/mystery-of-the-crazy-su...

[havoc]

Why didn't you post that vid up before?

Airborne ejector seat testing isn't unusual - without a snopes-type ref like that there's no reason to think it's a 'shop.

[Hugo a Gogo]

just found it

apart from it looking like a shop, with the halo etc

[Blib]

Hugo a Gogo said:

if you overlay the two pics in photoshop with 50% transparency you'll realise that you really should get out more.

EFA

[Hugo a Gogo]

damn yer goggly eyes to hell