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The MiG-31 is fitted with K-36DM seats. The Zvezda K-36 family of seats sport several features (arm & leg restraints, leg lifters, aerodynamic shield, telescopic booms with drogues to stabilize attitude after ejection) that may make supersonic ejection less suicidal (to some degree)...

George F. Smith survived ejection @ Mach 1.05 from an F-100A in 1955 (* Bonus story: The day an F-100 shot down a B-52) Jon "Jughead" Counsell survived ejection @ Mach 1.13 from an F-15C in 1994. He talks about his ordeal in this video:

Originally Posted by Astro14 ... With zero prep, even an experienced fighter pilot in an unfamiliar jet is a crash waiting to happen. Might work out OK, but probably won't ... This sad story comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_M._Bond#Death "... Bond insisted on flying the...

Originally Posted by Smokescreen ..simple......look up what they use on that engine/car in Europe and use that. Chevrolet Cavalier 2.2 ECOTEC users manual: Vauxhall Astra 2.2 ECOTEC (same frigging engine, as a matter of fact manufactured in Tonawanda, NY) users manual: So for the...

^ Yeah the AQM-34L & M low level recon versions sometimes came back trailing telephone & power wires, pieces of vietnamese jungle, and riddled by flak. Programmer error, when they input a height of 20 feet instead of 200 feet, resulted in some of the most interesting imagery returned. One of...

Originally Posted by DeepFriar ... So many people think drones are something new ... Ha. For instance the AQM-34 drones "only" flew about 3500 combat missions in Vietnam. Tom Cat was the survivability champion, it managed to return from many hairy flights over the North until it was...

If you don't mind DuckRyder, I can contribute to the "What does your engine look like on Mobil Oil" theme. Engine is a 2.2 four-pot Z22SE, european iteration of the GM L61 ECOTEC, 246K km (153K miles) on the odo and still pulling strong. Mobil 1 5W50, 10K km (6K miles) OCIs: For a...

^ Don't know if they understand english or if they'd deliver to the USA, but for what it's worth I buy stuff from them routinely and no problems thus far.

Originally Posted by bdcardinal Good luck finding it. I checked with all my Castrol vendors about getting some for "a customer" (actually) me and they said I had to order it from Ford. I emailed the Ford support people for parts departments and they said that since my dealer did not sign up to...

^ Does anybody know if there is any VOA of this stuff on the web? I'd like to see how it compares to Mobil 1 5W50 FS X1.

If you don't mind resurrecting an old thread, there are what look like VOAs of M1 5W50 FS X1 (the last two, the first one seems to be the older Rally Formula) in this german website: https://oil-club.de/index.php?thread/2097-mobil-1-fs-x1-5w-50/ Viscosity @ 40C: 100.39 ~ 102.65 Viscosity @...

Originally Posted by Astro14 ... that's a yaw string ... ^ Thanks for answering sir. I'd been suspecting that, but as you say the notion that such a simple device still had a place onboard the most sophisticated interceptor of its time was a bit perplexing. Guess every bit helps when you're...

To Astro14: Thank you very much for this awesome thread sir! Much appreciated! I came here for the oil stuff, then to my amazement discovered this hidden gem. If I may ask, what was the purpose of this piece of string that can be seen in close up from ~1:10 onwards? (probably a silly question...

Originally Posted by BusyLittleShop ^ That's an awesome picture! Guess the camera was located near the tip of the Mustang's port stabilizer? Since childhood I'd always been partial to the G and H versions of the B-25 armed with 75mm tank cannons :

Originally Posted by Brigadier Originally Posted by Cup of Joe It's a fighter jet. No need for thrust reversers. The Swedes would beg to differ with you. The Tornado is another exception to the rule.