These photos of a F-101 Voodoo rear seat are from correspondant
Kevin Patrick, a F-16 Crew Chief. The seat is in his
personal collection. He recovered it from 59-0454, a F-101F that had been used at Kunsan AFB, Korea for
airframe repair training when the airframe was scrapped in 1994.
The F-101 Voodoo seat was designed and built by Weber Aircraft. This seat has the later modifications for it to use the Stencel force deployed parachute and DART stabilizer system. The DART is a set of straps and brakes that keep the seat stable as it rises out of the cockpit. The ballistic parachute includes a rapid opening system that is fired by the full stretch of the parachute lines. The gun then fires and sends a series of small weights out radially which are attached to the skirt of the canopy and pull it open for a very rapid deployment. Note the personal equipment connections on the the front of the seat pan. The seat was equipped with padded armrests and side handgrips which contain the firing triggers.
| Front view with Parachute pack |
| Front view of the bare seat |
| Closeup of the seat back labels |
| Left side view |
| Right side view |
| Rear view |
| Front of the parachute pack |
| Rear of the parachute pack |
