Now the bang seat is an MB Mk V... : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Now the bang seat is an MB Mk V... / wbaiv
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-継承 2.1 |
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| 説明 | I morphied the Hasegawak kit's more or less Grumman ejection seat into the Martin Baker unit that would have ultimately flown with F11Fs if they hadn't been retired relatively quickly. Although the MB Mk 5 seat is "correct" for an F11F-1, only two F-11As flew with the MB seat. And only after all had been retired. Hence no photographic evidence of a Blue Angel's bird with an MB seat. Oops.The Navy did buy Martin-Baker Mk5 ejection seats for their F11F-1s, but didn't do the upgrades- all the F-11As were retired with their original Grumman supplied seats. *However* when the Navy bailed two F-11As to Rohr to test an in-flight thrust reverser design, they did upgrade those two to Martin-Baker seats. My guess is the pyrotechnic stuff in the Grumman supplied seats had expired. With many more Martin-Baker seats built and used, installing a flight-ready Martin-Baker seat would have been cheaper than requalifying or making new pyro stuff for the Grumman-supplied seat. In any event, Tommy Thomason's web site snd other sources I believe all tell this story. Of course, when I got a chance to photograph an F-11A, it was the one at Pima Air Museum, which had been one of the pair activated for Rohr, and contains some but not all of a Martin-Baker seat. So I have misleading evidence and I followed it. :^)IMG_5732 |
| 撮影日 | 2008-03-21 00:42:43 |
| 撮影者 | wbaiv |
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| カメラ | Canon PowerShot A100 , Canon |
| 露出 | 0.017 sec (1/60) |
| 開放F値 | f/5.6 |
| 焦点距離 | 7272.727273 dpi |