P-8 PR Video…

Posted on by September 2, 2014

Pretty good (and short) video of the P-8 from Farnborough Airshow…

Biggest ‘real’ selling point to the aircrew???

A working toilet… 😉

Screw all the rest of the stuff… THAT is what counts!

h/t JP

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P-8 PR Video… — 22 Comments

  1. Sir, we had to let that Russian boomer go on account of my co-pilot accidentally eating a bran-muffin this morning.

  2. Nice that the toilet works. However, me being an “oldphart” find nostalgic memories of P 3’s trying to find us…….(SNERK) and stand ing midwatch lookout on Dolphin and having the crap scared out of me by an S 3 flipping on the light about 2 seconds before it passed over the bridge and hearing it at the same time, more entertaining. We always wondered what they told the boss about finding a boat charging batteried in S D op area.

  4. NFO,

    Obviously WSF has never had to carry a full pee can to the head to empty it! 🙂 Lucky him!

  5. We would carry an empty Folgers can or two in the Brads for our facilities.

  6. Having flown in my share of Navy planes, I’ll concur that a working head beats a can, or a bottle, or even a porta-potty.
    Especially in turbulent skies.

  7. I’m a fan of a working head…and the older I get, the more essential it sounds.

  9. I thought all those big box fliers just dropped down a few thousands feet, stuck it out the window and let fly. Then climb back up to cursing altitude and let it freeze and flake off. Now they have an indoors toilet? Things are just getting too easy for the military.

  11. Odssyeus- LOL, we ‘did’ have a ‘phantom’ dumper on a couple of flights…

    Glenn- Y’all were pretty damn tricky with Triple-Nickel… I chased y’all a few times. Like trying to find a damn hole in the water!

    WSF- Yep, used to be… sigh… Now they ARE soft! 🙂

    N91- LOL, true! OR try to carry the full pisser down the ladder…

    WSF- True dat!

    SPEMack- Yeah, y’all DID have it rough… Kinda hard to step out and take a piss in the middle of a battle…

    Rev- Amen!!!

    LL- Yep, me too these days….

    Fargo- LOL

    CP- Heh… yep! 😀

    drjim- Light loaded you CAN make it sit up and perform… It was only about 80 degree nose up! 🙂

  12. The B-52 had a working crapper. It was under the IW seat and if you used it, you had to carry the plastic bag off the acft and dispose of it. I saw in the acft forms a wrightup that said “Piss can smells like a dead horse”. The ground crewchief signed it of as removing dead horse..

  13. So longer loiter time, up to date electronics, and improved crew comfort so they’re fighting the quarry not the work conditions?

    What’s the catch?

    BGM

  14. We have seen a few of those modified Boeing 737’s at my work location getting some Boeing mandated mod done to it. And yes..having a working crapper is a plus especially when you get older.

  15. Can you arrange to drop “blue ice” from the aircraft while crossing Chinese airspace?

    I’d think this would be an essential feature of a warplane of such renown. If they are going to make such a drop, I’d be happy to board the airplane before it sets off for China only to leave my personal best wishes and friendship for the People’s Republic.

  16. Ed- Yeah, same here on the P-3… NASTY…

    BGM- LOL, none… And better reliability brand new vs. 50 year old airframes…

    Bob- True!

    LL- LOL… And you would too! 🙂

  18. One day we’ll fill up the Bering Straits with sonobuoys and you’ll be able to walk across without getting your feet wet. This aircraft, with its load-out should be able to materially contribute to that end.

  20. LOL, ah yes, the P-3C toilet. If you used it, you cleaned it. Rank be damned. And you owed the crew a case of beer. On more than one occasion, I had to do the clenched butt two step in double time across the ramp after landing so I wouldn’t have to use the honey bucket. So now they have a real chemical toilet onboard. Wonder who gets to clean that out after flight?

  21. My uncle told us that they used paper bags and Coke bottles in their B-17s. Coke bottle made a sound like a bomb falling. Wouldn’t like to be close or under either one at touch-down.