Good website for a legend....albeit a slow legend...the S-2

[A4sForever]

I wonder why it's not SOP with our C-2's or E-2's?? .....

It seems like it WAS open back in the 'ol days. I won't bet my next paycheck on it, but I seem to remember the E/C-2's going by the LSO platform with the lid open in the cockpit ... ????

 

[PRIMUS]

Down here near St. Augustine Airport (SGJ) there is an S-2 graveyard. There's got to be at least a dozen of those babies all covered in moss and corrosion about a 1/2 mile south of the Northrup Grumman facility up the road. -Looks like something you'd see in a movie.

 

[Uncle Fester]

Eh... I stick by my theory that the ditching hatches, like the parachutes, are in the E-2/C-2 for morale purposes only.

 

[Pugs]

Eh... I stick by my theory that the ditching hatches, like the parachutes, are in the E-2/C-2 for morale purposes only.

Some guys off the FID in 91 would disagree on the Hummer

 

[Tex_Hill]

Joe "Hoser" Satrapa flies a S2-T fire bomber for the forestry service. As a matter of fact he's in California right now fighting the fires there. Here's a link with some pictures he posted from there. His post with the pic's is 3/4's of he way down.

http://www.tomcat-sunset.org/forums/index.php?topic=2441.225

 

[A4sForever]

Eh... I stick by my theory that the ditching hatches, like the parachutes, are in the E-2/C-2 for morale purposes only.

While I see your point that some stuff is B.S. and some is wishful thinking at best .... I must disagree with the "morale purposes only" observation.

Just so some herein don't get the "wrong" idea:

You keep fighting, you NEVER quit, you NEVER give up, you NEVER say "die" while there's still a breath in you .... NEVER QUIT -- EVER.

Witness:

 

[Uncle Fester]

I don't disagree. I'm just saying that it's tough getting from the Tube to the hatch with your 'chute when you're sitting on deck doing a Ditch & Bailout drill. Add smoke, fire, nighttime, wrasslin' with the controls up front, I think a successful full-crew bailout is a doubtful proposition at best. Ditching is a better bet - apparently Hummers float pretty well - but unless you're sitting ACO and right under the hatch, and it's open and stowed and everything works as advertised, I still wouldn't want to try it.

I believe that's an Whale in the picture above? Pretty relevant - it had a similarly doubtful bailout system and the joke was that A3D stood for All Three Dead (as in all three aircrew). But you can see the crew sitting on the wings and waiting for the helo, so you're absolutely right. Never say die.

 

[phrogpilot73]

But you can see the crew sitting on the wings and waiting for the helo, so you're absolutely right. Never say die.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again... What does a jet guy look like to a helo bubba? Cold, Wet, and Scared...

As for the ditching/bailout debate - at least you have a chance of being upright. Everything you mentioned (smoke, debris, etc) is in play in helos, but we're upside down...