Some moron backseater just ejected from his F-15 while on the flightline. 104th Fighter Wing at Barnes Air National Guard Base.

Can't find anything on news yet only social media and fuck linking that bullshit.

>>64117679 (OP)
It was an incentive flight. The bastard had to have done it on purpose as he would have been thoroughly trained on electing right before the flight.
A long time ago I took video of a guy getting his incentive flight in an F-15 at RAF Lakenheath.

>>64117679 (OP)
https://www.twz.com/air/f-15-ride-along-passenger-accidentally-ejects-from-the-jet-while-on-the-ground

>>64117998
>incentive flight
Oof, retards are going to kill incentive flights at this rate. There was another accidental ejection during one only a year or two ago.

>>64117679 (OP)
lmao what a joker

>>64117998
Why would it have to be on purpose dumbass? There’s a good amount of examples of this exact thing happening on accident.

How much are the costs associated with an ejection? I assume they somehow manage to get them into the millions of dollars range but honestly I have no idea.

>>64119163
The seat itself cost $1m, the canopy is another $100k, both will be fucked.
I imagine there is also damage caused by the rocket exhaust so it could easily run to $2m.

>>64117679 (OP)
He's 1 inch shorter now.

>>64117679 (OP)
Yeah, but he lived, right? Another victory for Martin-Baker.

Dont you have to pull super hard on some large metal ring to do that, with both hands, so doing it by accident is pretty much impossible? by now I wouldnt be surprised if he had a GoPro running and recorded it for social media clout.

>>64119264
>40-60 lbs of force required to pull ejection seat handle
https://www.cnatra.navy.mil/tw6/assets/docs/safety/aero-and-egress-T6.pdf

It's a bit but easily doable when moving your body around, I have read it's as low as 30 lbs for fighters which makes sense as you could be pulling it against high G loads.

>>64117998
2008-2011. Do you still remember the command waivered 14 hour days, with 2 hours of post mx work, total 16 hour work days for "high tempo"?

They really hated us. They really, really, hated us.

The lib club only dulled the pain, because my ass was sleeping in the car sometimes instead of driving home to drive back to work.

>>64117998
>>64119115
Why are incentive flights even a thing? Do zoomie pogues get a stiffy from vicariously living out their fantasies of being a jet pilot as a backseater for an hour

>>64119286
Planes need to fly to keep pilots hours up, it costs nothing to put a guy in the back seat while a pilot gets his hours in.
Also are you seriously saying if you were offered a ride in a fighter you would say no? If so get the fuck off /k/.

>>64119293
They should call them what they are instead of concocting some weaselly accounting term to hide how puerile the whole thing actually is: its a fucking joyride, nothing more

>>64119339
>its a fucking joyride
If I got a joyride in an F-15 as a bonus I'd probably put more than half an ass into my job. They're letting them do something cool as an incentive for doing something probably not cool. I don't see what's wrong with it.

>>64119339
>weaselly accounting term to hide how puerile the whole thing actually is

m8, this is the United States Air Force you're talking about here. Being stuck in a permanent state of adolescence and having more money than they know what to do with is baked into the institutional culture, like sodomy in the Navy and crayola in the Marines

>>64119339
>its a fucking joyride, nothing more
But that's not true.

It's a joyride for the passenger, it's training and skill maintenance for the pilot.
Combining them is *usually * a free joyride.
Obviously incidents like this add a cost to the joyride portion which might cause a review of the activity but it's not just a joyride, it's a joyride plus necessary stuff.

>>64117998
>It was an incentive flight
It was the instructor that ejected

>>64117998
>done it on purpose
not necessarily, there was a recent incident at Robin AFB where an instructor got his harness caught in the ejection handle and accidentally initiated an ejection, same with one of the Red Arrows pilots who accidentally looped a harness strap through the ejection handle.

>>64117679 (OP)
It was an incentive flight for a female public affairs officer so she could collect some photos for a public affairs campaign. She ejected herself after the incentive flight was over and they were taxiing back to park. Tandem seating setups have a Interseat Selector Switch (ISS) that determines whether pulling the ejection handle ejects just yourself, or yourself as well as the other member. Part of the call outs for the after landing checklist is "ISS - SOLO, SEAT - SAFE"
The pilot made the callout, and the retarded public affairs woman somehow couldn't retain her relatively simple training and thought it was a good idea to mess with the ejection handle which is located on the sides of the seat next to your thighs, in a similar location to the ISS lever. The pilot did not get ejected because the ISS was in SOLO as it should have been the entire flight. That portion of the callout would just be to confirm that it is indeed set to solo. He said fuck it and taxi'd back to park in his normal parking position afterwards.
>>64119383
No it wasn't. During all incentive rides (including the F-16D) the back seater is always the incentive pilot. Even when it's two pilots flying, the instructor will swap seats depending on what currencies need to be updated.

>>64119408
There was an F14 that launched the pilot just after landing on the Stennis back in -95 i think. Something lose in the cockpit hit something in the seat as it hit the wire and off he went

>>64117998

It still happens despite them covering ejection before flight. Aside from incidents another anon mentioned there was also the elderly Dassault employee who accidentally ejected from a Rafale where the command ejection misfired and didn't punch the pilot out allowing him to land.

There are also cases of warranted ejections like a 1991 Harrier T4 senpai flight for an air cadet (think JROTC). It was at 125ft AGL when a seagull went through the canopy and hit the pilot in command in the face. He slumped dazed on the front console while the passenger asked him what happened or if she should eject. Despite having just had his bell rung by a 200kn seagull he ejected with the passenger following 1 second after (no command ejection). At the time it wasn't clear if an 80lb soaking wet female could even eject safely but although the passenger was knocked out by the ejection she survived with severe injuries.

>>64117679 (OP)
They didn't fly so good!

>>64119440

Also a Spanish or French Mirage F1 where the pilot forgot to stow his ejection handle going into a HAS and accidentally rocket launched himself into the roof.

And somehow, all of these mishaps are easily trounced by the soviets, who built a bomber where an accidental ejection could happen because a control stick was too short.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jklGQxAOoo8

>>64119639
Its a big foggy, but i think either a congressman or senator launched himself at one point as well. Had a loose seatbelt and tried to pull himself back into the seat while pulling negative Gs by using the strap between his legs

>>64119660
There was a nose seat bomber built with a gravity assist ejection seat in the USSR not for safety, but if the bomber refused to drop a nuke, he was dropped out of the plane with no parachute at like 40k feet, then the pilot rotates the purpose built controls to himself and drops the bombs.

>>64117679 (OP)
Such is life in the vassal state

>>64119412
fucking PA ruining everything yet again.

>>64117998
>had to have done it on purpose
If he didn't yell, EJECT, EJECT, EJECT, it was an accident.

>>64119917
Kek this, what a pathetic """country"""

>>64117679 (OP)
>fuck linking that bullshit.
im now convinced mrgunsngear is actually albino kek

I got an incentive flight in a T-37 when I was a cadet almost 20 years ago, I remember being told never to touch that handle unless it was an emergency. Then again it was a side by side, but Jesus you’ve gotta be really fucking stupid to eject yourself by accident

>>64117679 (OP)
its unironically over. the west has fallen

>>64119159
sounded like fun

>>64119412
i bet the pilot shit himself when he heard the backseater Wily Coyote themselves out of the plane

>>64119412
>He said fuck it and taxid back to his position to park
Lmao what a king.

>>64119412
what a dumb fucking cunt