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>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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