Aug 012022
This is not for me. Instead, I was contacted by Someone Some Of You Might Know (and whose work *all* of you should know), who is working on a project and needs a bit of help. Specifically, dimensioned, accurate, detailed diagrams of the Weber ejection seat used on the F-106:
Sadly, this is the best I seem to have on hand:
Anybody have anything they can share or point to?
If I’m the “Someone Some Of You Might Know” that you mentioned, then thanks for sharing the Weber diagram. It’s just what I was looking for. I have some photos of a seat that was modified for ‘Land of the Giants’ and is now sitting on the porch of an old guy in Texas, but I had no way to ascertain the scale of anything. Now I can get to work.
Thanks again,
Gary
Glad to be of help, as limited as it was. *Somewhere* out there are plans and reports and manuals that would allow one to build one of these from scratch, but sadly, “somewhere” doesn’t include my files. Personally I find this to be an outrageous injustice. The government needs to give me an annual stipend of half a million or so so I can go from archive to archive photocopying, photographing and scanning all the aerospace history I can. Like some 1980’s TV hero, roaming the highways looking for adventure in my advanced, talking, self-driving automocar…
Likewise, somebody should pay for the position of Documentarian for sci-fi TV shows & movies. Every time I’ve asked somebody who worked at ILM a technical question about a model, they’ll reply, “We were working on the model till 4:00 a.m. twenty years ago, and I don’t remember anything.”
That’s why I’m a sci-fi archaeologist.
Thanks again for your help.
Gary
There’d be a lot of overlap with “aerospace archeologist/documentarian” and “sci-fi documentarian/archeologist.” And a *lot* of that overlap would be “constant sense of frustration and barely repressed anger.”
“What do you *mean* you fed the entirety of Boeing’s AMSA/B-1 effort into the shredder?!?!?!”
“What do you *mean* you dumped Space Station V onto a playground for children to destroy?!?!?!”
I suspect the Venn Diagram for the two positions would end up looking pretty much like a circle.