Re: Aircraft pics
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Bill, just out of curiosity, where is the ash tray in the F 15 cabin?
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Just flick'em on the floor.
The KC-135 had ashtrays! I just missed the smoking era--it was banned in 1987-88 just as I entered flight school. Old-timer KC-135 guys in my squadron said it could get pretty smoky in the cockpit if everyone lit-up. (During two-hour touch-and-go practice sessions in the airbase traffic pattern they'd open the pilot's cockpit side windows to vent-out the smoke--yes at 180 knots on downwind. There was just enough airflow to suck the smoke out while not causing a tornado blast in the cockpit.) The nicotine would stick the cabin pressurization outflow valves and cause cabin pressure problems even several years after smoking onboard had been banned. If you looked at the valves located in the main wheelwell on your preflight walk-around they were still nicotine-stained after almost ten years.
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