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Total Ejections a Pilot can make?
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"Total ejections a pilot can make .... " ???
When I was a STUD ... one of our instructors was an "ace" .... for the other side.
But "how many"??? Well, you should be able to make one for every takeoff you log without a corresponding landing ..... until "they" figure out why you keep making all those ejections.
When I was a STUD ... one of our instructors was an "ace" .... for the other side.
But "how many"??? Well, you should be able to make one for every takeoff you log without a corresponding landing ..... until "they" figure out why you keep making all those ejections.
I do know an S-3 NFO who has ejected from 1 A-6 & 1 S-3 and has been in at least 1 other Class A w/out an ejection. He's still flying now and on track to be an XO/CO.
Like was said before, I don't believe that there is an official limit on ejections, just on damage to the body before NOMI says no more for you.
Like was said before, I don't believe that there is an official limit on ejections, just on damage to the body before NOMI says no more for you.
We had two guys at my last command who had each ejected twice. One guy was from VF-41. CS 'Bru' He was featured on one of those 30 minute news programs (Inside Edition?)...cant' remember the name. The girl doing the interview also got to fly as part of the interview package. Oh my, there was certainly some eye candy there.
The other guy....I was giving him a tour of the TG building. Lining the walls are dozens of pictures of A/C...he stops, then tells me that (pointing) 'that one doesn't exist anymore; I dumped it off Cubi.' He went on to tell me that he woke up under water and, after a year in the hospital, decided to do something else. He became a flight surgeon.
There is no magical number for ejections....if you clear the physical, you get to continue flying. As far as being shorter after an ejection, I have never heard of someone being measured after one....in theory it sounds good as the joint space between the vertebrae will always compress during an ejection; they will also rebound back to very near their normal size.
The other guy....I was giving him a tour of the TG building. Lining the walls are dozens of pictures of A/C...he stops, then tells me that (pointing) 'that one doesn't exist anymore; I dumped it off Cubi.' He went on to tell me that he woke up under water and, after a year in the hospital, decided to do something else. He became a flight surgeon.
There is no magical number for ejections....if you clear the physical, you get to continue flying. As far as being shorter after an ejection, I have never heard of someone being measured after one....in theory it sounds good as the joint space between the vertebrae will always compress during an ejection; they will also rebound back to very near their normal size.
I think most of the "shorter after ejection" camp is getting their info from anecdotal cases. I can think of one from the Discovery Channel program "Carrier: Fortress at Sea" where the A-6 pilot said he was an inch shorter after punching out. I've heard it elsewhere, as well, for what it's worth.
Yup, that's the one. I thought he was the pilot, because I later saw him at VF-11 when I was there for a summer cruise. He had apparently transferred over once the Intruders went away. I thought the O-4 in the show was the BN, but I may be remembering it wrong.
I agree .... although the earlier Martin-Baker seats gave an initial "more violent" ride than the Escapac seats, according to the experts. I suffer from back problems today which were predicted 30 years ago as a result of a non-MB, Escapac seat. But I think this is where some of the annecdotal "shorter" aviator stuff came from .... earlier Martin-Baker ejections, that is .....gatordev said:
I know some Aviators had to be "shorter" to "fit" into some of the seats. For example .... the fire-plug shaped STUDs went to Beeville and the F-9 while their more handsome, urbane, taller bretheren went to the much sexier A-4 in Kingsville. Sitting height .... who could know??? Some vertically challenged STUDs even went to the "measurement" at NAMI with newspaper stuffed into their jockey shorts. It led to the Flight Surgeons requiring Jet STUDs heading for Texas and Advanced to take the sitting height "measurement" in their underwear after an "inspection", of sorts.
Do you suppose ..... the origin of "don't ask, don't tell" ???