http://www.neptunuslex.com/2003/11/24/watching-an-ejection/ The unbearable lightness of Lex. Enjoy! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:11:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2003/11/24/watching-an-ejection/comment-page-1/#comment-360447 SpazSinbad Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:58:32 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=363#comment-360447 Phew! Glad this story had a happy ending. "...the SS steel tube that runs from the seat initiator to the rocket motor wasn’t a hollow tube. The middle section was blocked, not drilled out. So for this test pilot, the canopy fired but the seat didn’t. Ouch. NavAirSysCom checked the rest of the A-4 fleet and found 5 more A-4’s with the blocked seat rocket initiator tubes." http://www.skyhawk.org/2d/tins/a4-glider.htm Phew! Glad this story had a happy ending. “…the SS steel tube that runs from the seat initiator to the rocket motor wasn’t a hollow tube. The middle section was blocked, not drilled out. So for this test pilot, the canopy fired but the seat didn’t. Ouch. NavAirSysCom checked the rest of the A-4 fleet and found 5 more A-4’s with the blocked seat rocket initiator tubes.”
http://www.skyhawk.org/2d/tins/a4-glider.htm

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