I remember that the School of Aviation Medicine which used to be at the RAAF base in Point Cook, Victoria, had one of these ejection seat trainers. They stopped using it because too many people were getting back injuries!
Like spin training or engine out simulation for twins [*]. It seems to be a knife-edge whether the risk from training causes more harm than the problem that is being trained for actually happening.
[*] E.E. Canberra for example. {{Not that I've flown one; did sit in an armed bang-seat of a Canberra once with admonition not to touch anything.}} {{{Pins in of course.}}}
Driving with the Tudor.
…I got stuck in the back of a 206 today…
Nice one. Is that a cup holder I see above your watch? I wonder which aircraft type that is as I've never seen a cup holder in a cockpit before.
Dude…check it out…look who else got stuck in the back of a 206 [high-skid configuration] back in the early 1980s…Canadian rocker Aldo Nova…
…and right after he got out of the back of the 206, he blew a door down with a freaking laser beam from his guitar…
For your coffee break or morning coffee reading. Or if you wish, simply read the bold print.
From my Legion magazine…
And some advertisement.
And a small charm that I picked up at an antique store yesterday. Roughly the size of a US/Can dime.
Interesting article. Thanks for sharing. I dare say that by the Second World War such notions of chivalry would have been on the wane. But then again, there is an equally famous account of a badly damaged B-17 bomber that was spared by a German fighter.
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/valor-when-an-enemy-was-a-friend/
Dude…check it out…look who else got stuck in the back of a 206 [high-skid configuration] back in the early 1980s…Canadian rocker Aldo Nova…
…and right after he got out of the back of the 206, he blew a door down with a freaking laser beam from his guitar…
Speaking of the 206, below is a pic from 2023 during our Aviation Officer Candidate School reunion at the National Naval Aviation Museum at NAS Pensacola…had to get a pic with the TH-57 [the mil version of the 206] which I flew to get my naval aviator wings in 1988.
LATE ENTRY: Also, I’m wearing my original issue G-1 flight jacket from 1986 in the pic.
Hey Mad, a beautiful jacket 😎
I knew that photo looked familiar. I have a book by the person who took it. His name is LCDR C.J. Heatley. Callsign "Heater".
As a helicopter pilot I have never been inclined to wearing bulky “pilots” watches at work. It might explain why I only have one GMT in my collection. Like the airline pilot said there is just too much metal to hook those larger cases and crowns on. More often or not I find myself wearing my DJ to work rather my than my GMT or Seiko Divers.
It is hard to tell from this picture but it is possible that the C.J. might actually be wearing a Rolex “Thunderbird” or Turn-o-Graph. Not an uncommon option for pilots of that era.
https://www.swisswatchexpo.com/thewatchclub/2023/02/22/rolex-turn-o-graph-ultimate-guide/
I am headed back to work tonight with this in my wrist.
That's a nice blue dial.
Thank you!
Wonder how many "Thunderbirds" Turn-o-Graphs they made? They'd be real collector's items now.
