Do they still just vent it out on the ground-dwellers' heads? They're not
always flying over the enemy you know.
Charlie
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Sue Pearce <bs.pearce@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Perhaps the term you young fellows are trying to recall is "relief tube"
> where your by-products are sent outdoors.
>
> Bill Pearce
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> From: "Chris Barker" <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 12:30 PM
> Subject: [OM] Pee bags, was Dunnies - was Nathan's PAW 48: point and shoot
>
>
> > For the aircraft which have it, Charles, it's just a toilet. In smaller,
> > faster machines it's a pee bag or something like "relief system". I've
> > only used it once, in the F16.
> >
> > Story: switch off now if you get bored easily.
> >
> > My first ever long-range trip, using a USAF Reserves KC-135 to get 5 F16s
> > from MacDill AFB, FL to NAS Miramar near San Diego. I felt the need to
> > pee after a couple of hours, perhaps over Texas. So I broke the membrane
> > on a pee bag and tried to use it. But the little fighter's seat is
> > inclined at 30deg (vs the 13deg of most other ejection seats) and I'm not
> > well-endowed enough to make the flow from leaning backwards like that.
> So
> > I have to unstrap and lean forward a bit. But also it's cold in the
> > cockpit and a limp dick becomes quite difficult to find. So you have to
> > think warm thoughts to make it all happen!
> >
> > What is also difficult is holding formation with a tanker while trying to
> > find your willie in a flight suit strapped into an ejection seat. So I
> > wandered away from the formation and almost couldn't find them when I had
> > finished my business.
> >
> > But that was preferable to a USAF colleague's experience. Before we
> > departed MacDill he showed me a pee tube affair that he had rigged up: a
> > funnel over said willie, tube-connected to a pee bag in his lower flight
> > suit pocket. Trouble was it leaked ... and he got out of his super-cool
> > F16 on the ramp at Fightertown USA with a long wet patch on his flight
> > suit leg and crotch, risking great scorn from our Naval hosts. Oh, the
> > ignominy!
> >
> > And this is a photo of me in a D-model (2-seater) just before departing
> > Miramar. I think it was taken with an Olympus Infinity Twin, bought in
> > San Diego a few days before.
> >
> > http://gallery.me.com/zuiko#100053
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > On 8 Dec 2009, at 18:09, Charles Geilfuss wrote:
> >
> >> Chris what do the fly boys call it? I've never heard it called anything
> >> in
> >> the big jets. In the small ones I suppose its a diaper or "just wait".?!
> >>
> >> Charlie
> >
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