Hawkeyes!

[Flash]

Ok... I didn't even think for a second that it had ejection seats... Learn something new every day...

It has six, 4 go up and 2 go down. That's right, two seats actually eject downward. B-52's have two decks with the top deck having 4 seats, the two pilots facing forwards and the EWO and tail-gunner seats facing aft on the upper deck (no more tail gunner, so they leave it empty or for relief crewmen). Right below the upper-deck are the two Navigators, sitting in what is basically a windowless box with their instruments and two ejection seats that go the wrong way, down. I think they need be at 1000AGL for them to survive.

If you pay close enough attention in Dr Strangelove James Earl Jones is one of the Navigators and sticks his head through the hatch in the floor to listen to Slim Pickens give his rousing final speech to his crew.

B-52's were not the only aircraft with downward-firing ejection seats, early models of the F-104 had them too.

 

[MIDNJAC]

The Navigators in that second pic-link don't even look strapped in.....do they just have to throw it all on at the last minute?

 

[HeyJoe]

091209-O-0000X-002 ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (Dec. 9, 2009) E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft conduct a test flight near St. Augustine, Fla. (Photo Courtesy Northrop Grumman/Released)

 

[HeyJoe]

091209-O-0000X-001 ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (Dec. 9, 2009) E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft conduct a test flight near St. Augustine, Fla. (Photo Courtesy Northrop Grumman/Released)

 

[MasterBates]

E-2D rollout was today at LP-27. I avoided that place like the plauge. (I tend to avoid parties that involve the CNO)

 

[Alpha_Echo_606]

E-2D rollout was today at LP-27. I avoided that place like the plauge. (I tend to avoid parties that involve the CNO)

You'll never make rank using common sense like that! :icon_wink Welcome back MB.

 

[scoolbubba]

How many vapor cycle cooling boxes is that thing gonna grow?

 

[MasterBates]

I dunno.. I don't even know what scoop is for what on the C model I fly. It's all NFO black magic shit.

 

[HeyJoe]

How many vapor cycle cooling boxes is that thing gonna grow?

More like Swamp Coolers out in Southwest

070803-O-0000X-001 WASHINGTON (Aug. 3, 2007) In this file photo provided by Northrup-Grumman Corporation, an E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft conducts a test flight. (Photo Courtesy Northrop Grumman/Released)

 

[Uncle Fester]

How many vapor cycle cooling boxes is that thing gonna grow?

I dunno.. I don't even know what scoop is for what on the C model I fly. It's all NFO black magic shit.

More like Swamp Coolers out in Southwest

If you really wanna know:
- There's an extra, smaller scoop on top of the V/C scoop - that's the big one on top, for non-window lickers - for the RPCS system (extra radar cooling and pressurizes/dries out the transmit lines...APY-9 puts out a metric shit-ton of power)
- Small one on the nacelle for OBOGS
- The LCS scoop - the one on the side - is about double the size. More o' them majik boxes means more cooling.

I've been elbow-deep in the D NATOPS for about 5 months - it's a neato airplane. N-G is working on getting all the computers to talk to each other and play nicely, but in all, seems to be ticking along.

I hope I can be there for the show the first time a fleet squadron takes one to Fallon. What this thing can do is gonna melt some brains. Literally, if you get too close...as I said, new radar, shitbox of power.

 

[MasterBates]

Yeah, and I only have gold-film (that will be scratched and trashed within a year) to protect my nuts.. I was not that great when I took Fields as a EE class, but I know that scratched film make the shielding no workie as well.

(no, I'm not looking forward to going back to the RAG as a squadron)

 

[phrogpilot73]

no, I'm not looking forward to going back to the RAG as a squadron

It can't be worse than your current sentence, I mean squadron...

 

[Uncle Fester]

Yeah, and I only have gold-film (that will be scratched and trashed within a year) to protect my nuts...

Oh, like you were planning on having any sons, anyway.

 

[Flugelman]

I dunno.. I don't even know what scoop is for what on the C model I fly. It's all NFO black magic shit.

If you were a P-3 bubba you'd know....:icon_tong

 

[MasterBates]

I SHOULD probably know.. Just after dealing with the HSL "how many microns is this" "how many teeth are on that gear you can't see" "what pressure does that light come on at, and is it 16-18 psi or 17+/- 1 psi" sort of stuff, I just don't care to know it.

If it ain't asked on the NATOPS check, and won't help me diagnose something, I no longer care. I don't know if the AC bus tie is the k7, k9 or k69 relay. I just know that if it don't work, it affects shit.