{"id":6353,"date":"2010-07-13T00:40:44","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T05:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=6353"},"modified":"2011-03-23T22:58:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T03:58:19","slug":"new-ejection-seat-improves-t-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/13\/new-ejection-seat-improves-t-38\/","title":{"rendered":"New Ejection Seat Improves T-38"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force has announced that the 50 year old fleet of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/aircraft.htm#T-38\">T-38 <em>Talons<\/em><\/a>, the AF&#8217;s primary jet trainer, is being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123212777\">upgraded with a new ejection seat<\/a>.\u00a0 The Martin Baker seat will reportedly be a vast improvement over the prior version, integrating the parachute with the seat (so it no longer has to be carried to the jet by the pilot) as well as giving the T-38 a zero-zero ejection capability.<\/p>\n<p>The modification <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2010\/07\/airforce_t38_ejection_seat_071210w\/\">includes sequenced ejection<\/a>; in the original version of the T-38, each cockpit ejected independently of the other.\u00a0 Now, either cockpit can command ejection, both seats will go, and the rear seat will always go first.<\/p>\n<p>This is not an insignificant change.\u00a0 In 2009, a rear seat crew member <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwards.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123150653\">ejected while the front seat pilot\u00a0did not<\/a>.\u00a0 Since the seats were independent, the front seater remained in the aircraft to impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force has announced that the 50 year old fleet of\u00a0T-38 Talons, the AF&#8217;s primary jet trainer, is being upgraded with a new ejection seat.\u00a0 The Martin Baker seat will reportedly be a vast improvement over the prior version, integrating the parachute with the seat (so it no longer has to be carried to the jet by the pilot) [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[13,224,2,32,757],"class_list":["post-6353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft","tag-ejection","tag-military","tag-pilot-training","tag-t-38"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}