OV-1 Mohawk Rigid Seat Survival Kit

[Flynndoman]

You are great man!   Thanks a bunch!   I need to pack mine now (minus the stuff sacks, until my I can get my wife to sew me up a couple out of spare parachute cloth)

 

You must have a collection from hell, if you can pull all this stuff out without hesitation....

 

Dayle

[mohawkALSE]

12 hours ago, RWW said:

Packing the raft is kind of tricky. You have to make sure all the air is out of the raft first.  Below are a couple of pictures of my kit with the raft in it. The yellow line is the life raft retention line. Below that is the inflation toggle.

There are F-111 QRK's made for both sides of the aircraft, but usually there was only one in each escape module. I believe which side was based of which model aircraft. The kits came from AMARC when the aircraft were scrapped. When they were first taken to Davis-Monthan for storage there was a minimum list of gear that was put in the kits in case the airframes had to be placed back into service in a hurry.  Those components were likely different from what would have been placed in them by an operational unit. Below are a few pictures of my kits. The most unique items in the kits were the reversable carry sacks.

Thats cool your SSP had a rigger mod of that little sleeve/pocket to hold the raft retaining line.  I recall the Army Survival Kit manual from 1966 showed the lines sping/snap hook clipped to the edge of the raft pocket between some snaps to stow it when packed.