[straps]

My question is this I have flown in aircraft for over 14 years as a crew member and have had several rides in Supersonic aircraft an retired from the USAF.
All that being said here are my questions to the article

1. Where the hell was the Pilots G Suit Mandatory wear in supersonic aircraft?

2. How dare the manufacturer's install a rocket ejection seat not capable of speeds of the F22. That is a criminal offense.
3. I want the engineers name who made the decision to okay this ejection seat be installed in a 2 hundred million dollar aircraft. I want his ass on a pike pole.

3. Who is the idiot in aircraft acquisition who allowed this stupid installation to occur this had to get by at least 8 different engineers from the USAF and how many from Lockheed?????

This is a sin somebody needs to go to Jail??

[USNBandit]

Here are some answers to your questions

1. A g-suit only buys you an extra G of tolerence. The pilot has to do the rest himself.

2. The seat probably performed like it was supposed to, but you can't build a seat wear a pilot in normal flight clothing will survive a supersonic ejection. Anything over 450 and you are looking at some severe injuries, even if you survive.

3. I'm sure the seat is the best seat money can buy.

It's a tough business flying an aircraft capable of the speeds and sustained g of the F-22. This will not be the last GLOC mishap in this aircraft. The guys that fly this thing need to stay in the gym and do a lot of squats.

That's my opinion, and I'm in my 17th year flying fighters.

[A.A. Cunningham]

One would think that with "over 14 years as a crew member and have(sic) had several rides in Supersonic aircraft" you wouldn't be asking questions like a neophyte.

Quit emoting.

[Mom MD]

The problem is not with the ejection seat. The problem is with the human body. Ejection at supersonic speeds exceeds the design limit of flesh and bone.

[TalonDJ]

Seats that can protect a pilot through super sonic ejection are never installed on fighters and never have been. If you want to see what one looks like google up the seats the XB-70 used. The are big and bulky. While you are at it look up how one nearly killed the one pilot that got out when the second XB-70 crashed.

You don’t arrest engineers for designing exactly what they are told to design.

[Travis T. OJustice]

I’m surprised you didn’t say they should build the plane the way they build the blackboxes, so it would survive.

Duh.

[Ramius]

Wow. So many obvious errors, yet so little time to correct them.

Ejecting at 700+ knots is pretty much fatal, and it has nothing whatever to do with the design of the ejection system.