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@WarrenPlatts @MCCCANM It's det cord is what I got from KC-10. Pretty sure it's all either common knowledge or easily found. Maybe.

@MCCCANM This is stuff perhaps you shouldn't be talking about on the internet? 😼Just sayin'🍺

The “wavy” lines in the canopy glass (plastic) are not antennas…they are explosive cords. In the movies, an ejection is preceded by the jet’s canopy being blown off. “Goose” got killed in Top Gun because it didn’t happen fast enough & the seat hit the canopy. Some jets took a different approach, though. Rather than jettison the canopy, which is complicated & can fail, why not just blow it up? Shatter it into a thousand pieces that won’t hurt the pilot. This can shorten the ejection sequence, too, as you don’t need to allow as much time for the canopy to clear the ejection path (we’re talking fractions of a second, but still…). Anyway, this is the design they came up with. It’s known as a “Canopy Fracturing System”. It’s automatically triggered when you pull the ejection handle, but can be manually triggered as well without ejecting. I suppose that might be useful if smoke is accumulating in the cockpit. Now, jets that blow the whole canopy off instead of blowing it up have a somewhat complicated system to accomplish this. The system has to release the hooks locking the canopy onto the jet; it often does this by pushing hot gas from an explosive through tubes that push the hooks back (there are several methods, though). Kind of like firing a gun. Both systems can fail, though the explosive cord is considered very reliable…they put it in the F-35 (and I had it on the T-6). As a backup, the top of the ejection seat has a little pointy end on it. In theory, this point should hit the canopy before your head does if the canopy is still there in an ejection, shattering it before the canopy shatters your spine. I’d guess that has happened before, but I can’t recall any examples. Older jets sometimes got around all of this by just ejecting you downward. A hole would open up in the floor & the seat departs that way. The disadvantage here is obvious…you’ll have a higher minimum safe ejection altitude. This system still exists in the B-52. The seats back then were not quite as sophisticated as they are now… Today’s seats detect your orientation. If you eject while inverted, the seat will fire just enough to get you out of the jet, then right itself to point upward & fire again. When the seat has done its job, it automatically cuts the belts & straps that held you in & departs. The seat itself contains the parachute…so when you strap in, you’re strapping on the parachute…obviously, the seat doesn’t cut that, it’s the parting gift. The parachute has a barometric sensor that automatically deploys it if below a set altitude. If flying over high terrain (higher than the standard set altitude), you can rig it to immediately deploy the parachute on seat separation. The parachute also has an emergency oxygen bottle. This is not automatic, but pulling a cord will start the short flow of oxygen (I think it’s like 4 or 5 minutes, can’t remember). The hose for your oxygen mask is connected to the jet but is designed to break-away from the jet at the connection in an ejection; a smaller hose connects to a point on the parachute harness that will provide the emergency oxygen. The seat also contains a small survival kit & may be fitted with an automatically inflating raft for water landings. These will dangle underneath you as you descend. Ok, that’s about all I can recall off the top of my head. The ejection sequence is very, very short…pull the handle & you’ll be gone before you know it. In two-seat jets, the back seat goes first to prevent them from being burned by the rocket on the front seat. There is a sequencing lever in the jet that allows pilots to select if both seats will fire if any ejection handle is pulled, though…so you can select that each seat must pull its own handle. Useful if doing orientation rides for non-pilots…you don’t want them ejecting you, too.

@MikeyDiMercurio “There are few problems in this world that cannot be solved by the judicious application of high explosives.” - Shark 4🦈

Feed me.

This Iranian woman is going viral for setting the record straight on Iranians: “Iranians are not Muslim. We all hate Islam after 47 years of Islamic regime. Under Sharia… I would be killed for dressing like this. We’re peaceful people.”

Stay strapped. Practice your draw. Pay attention.

Holy shit. Lol. The IRISH PATRIOTS TORCHED THE GLENSIDE HOTEL IN DROGHEDA NO ONE wants the invaders. They ALL have to GO HOME…or watch the whole country burn. THIS FIGHT JUST GOT REAL 🇮🇪

@DolioJ The black South Africans have been in South Africa for less time than the Dutch.

@DolioJ If it wasn't for "colonialism", they'd still be chasing springbok with spears and dragging them back to their grass huts.

@DolioJ what's she gonna do with it once she takes it? nothing. she'll be in the same place or worse than she is now.

Note: the Cape had zero indigenous people when the Europeans arrived.

🚨 BREAKING: A FEDERAL criminal investigation has been launched by the FBI in the MOB ATTACK on TPUSA reporter Savanah Hernandez @Savsay outside ICE Minneapolis, per @mrddmia Good! Hit them with FEDERAL CHARGES, as Minnesota state charges won’t stick

Hands down….one of the most brutal scenes to watch in any war movie.

California legislators are trying to make investigating fraud illegal

Bc more people are on “Xitter” than there are people outside of a Planned Parenthood clinic. This kind of education is far more effective here than there. Plus there are only two PP clinics in my entire state and both are far away from me. It’s not worth the gas money to try and educate an empty parking lot.

@Guntalk Since 2015, I go everywhere with a sidearm, usually it's a Glock 19. Since almost forever I've carried a knife, even in school.

Change your thinking to "Today it WILL happen." A guy with a hammer. With a machete. With a rock. With a knife. You can't talk him out of it. He is determined to kill you and your spouse. No reason at all. Commit to your plan before leaving the house.

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Tier One Master Breachers, photo taken 19 October 1989. We were doing R&D breaching and testing in Nevada. Great group of guys. L to R: Mike Vining - Delta, Pete Poillon - ST-6, Dr. Alex Rosner, Ph D, Dennis Wolfe - Delta, and Jamie Atherton - FBI-HRT.  I will not comment on my shorts.

If the Irish Government collapses tomorrow, the ripple effects across Europe could be ENORMOUS. It would show people in the rest of Europe how easy it is to stop their Governments from destroying their Countries, if they just stand up and FIGHT BACK!!! Please let it happen! 🙏

The Band of Brother's Bastogne Set