Coffee machines and bunk beds in IAF's C-130J Super Hercules cockpits

[Abingdonboy]

Not "crew comforts" but necessities when doing the work these guys do for long hours at a time, they need to be able to get some rest or get some nutrition otherwise their effectiveness is going to severely diminish.

 

[Dash]

The only fighter to have toilets and other facilities is Su34 Palyptus which India is now testing secretly in Pune Air Base.

You are here for some time now so I dont think that u are trolling...but since when Su34 is getting tested and what tests are we doing on a fully developed platform??...sounds so unreasonable.

 

[DarK-LorD]

SR 71 should have had these...

I already have a coffee machine in my office but no bunk beds.

 

[Lord Of Gondor]

The spirit bombers might also have these facilities as they have flown the longest wartime bombing sortie in the history of Bombing runs.
B-2 Spirit Factsheet :: Air-Attack.com

Six B-2s were committed to Operation Enduring Freedom, the American intervention in Afghanistan in 2001/2002, performing strikes in the early phases of the conflict. One mission lasted 44 hours, the longest combat sortie in the history of air warfare, with B-2s flying out of Whiteman to Afghanistan, dropping their loads, and then landing on Diego Garcia island in the Indian ocean to refuel, rearm, and take on new crews while the engines remained on idle. This done, the B-2s went back to Afghanistan to drop their loads, and finally returned to Whiteman. Four B-2s were also committed to Operation Iraqi Freedom, the American invasion of Iraq in the spring of 2003.

 

[sancho]

You are here for some time now so I dont think that u are trolling...but since when Su34 is getting tested and what tests are we doing on a fully developed platform??...sounds so unreasonable.

I would like to see a source for this, but it would depend on what IAF or even IN would like to do with it. Remember there were dedicated EW and ASW versions offered from this fighter, maybe IAF would evaluate if it is useful to induct it for the EW role, or simply modify MKI.

 

[Obambam]

The be the best smelling cockpits in the world.

 

[Dalai Lama]

Coffee > Chai/Tea anyday.

 

[Roybot]

I already have a coffee machine in my office but no bunk beds.

 

[harpoon]

Coffee > Chai/Tea anyday.

Filter coffee rules...

 

[untitled]

self delete .....

 

[monitor]

having s coffee machine doesn't seems any big feature . its a very small machine

 

[untitled]

having s coffee machine doesn't seems any big feature . its a very small machine

They don't seem big features but when an aircraft hits turbulence, power to the galleys (ovens, coffee and tea makers) is immediately cut off ..... Too much strain on the engines

 

[Nav]

Thats the difference b/n Western & Russian stuffs. Russians never cared much for the crew comfort. For them the mission was more important than the journey to get there and also makes things as simple as possible for easier maintenance.

I heard that B-52 bombers have toilets like that in commercial aircrafts. Can anybody confirm this

So they carpet bombard the enemy positions with their xhit..

 

[Nav]

The only fighter to have toilets and other facilities is Su34 Palyptus which India is now testing secretly in Pune Air Base.

any credible source of your claim? As far as i knw size of su-34 is not that big that it can accomodate toilet and other such things.

 

[harpoon]

So they carpet bombard the enemy positions with their xhit..

May be.... I am not an aviation expert, but if there is provision for dumping fuel while in flight there will be also for 'you know what'.