Not your typical warbird article

[Doc Flimshaw Sass# 73310]

Read this if you think the facilities at your next shoot are not up to par.

 

http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/Stories/tabid/116/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/400/language/en-CA/When-ya-gotta-go.aspx

[Subdeacon Joe]

GREAT find!

[The Original Lumpy Gritz]

I wouldn't give the airlines any more ideas for cut-backs.......

LG

[Four-Eyed Buck,SASS #14795]

When you gotta go, you gotta go.

[Utah Bob #35998]

Great article. Thanks.

 

And the pee tube in a C130 is no Hilton powder room either.

Don't ask.

[Duffield, SASS #23454]

When being trained on the U-6 Beaver at Ft. Rucker in 1965 I saw a number of my classmates pick the relief tube up and talk into it.

 

Fortunately, I had been forewarned.

[Tom Foolery U.S.M. #2348]

My uncle was a mechanic on coast watch aircraft during WWll. A friend of his was a pilot and they were always pulling gags on each other. Uncle loosened the "relief tube" on the bottom of the aircraft and positioned it to blow INTO the system. Pilot wet his pants.

 

 

TF

[Harvey Mushman]

I remember peeing in the relief tube on a 6 hour flight and discovering that the tube was clogged. There you sit with a funnel full of urine in one hand, the stick in the other, and a bladder that ain't done......

 

Sure taught me to check the suction first - never again! ;-)

 

Then went on to newer bird, the F/A-18. No relief tube, only "Piddle Packs", thick plastic baggies (three or four times as thick as freezer bags - about the thickness of saline solution IV bags) with a compressed sponge inside, and they were folded in quarters. They split often at the folded corners, so that quickly became a pre-flight item and new ones desired all the time.....

 

Still, all much easier than what the WWII bomber crews had to deal with!

 

Harvey