When you gotta go...

[Ack-Ack]

Actually, there was a debate on how the pilots took care of their bladders and bowels, in a small local web community on military history that I am a part of. The topic came up when someone mentioned how medieval knights took care of business during battles - just pis*ing and shi*ing in armour, right on top of a horse... and how the squires and attendants would have to clean it up after the master returned smelling like crap (literally).

There was an engineer that used to work for my father that flew F-14s in the '70s and early '80s.  I remember asking him once what happens if he has to go to the bathroom and he said he told me that most pilots would try and refrain from drinking fluids before flights but that wasn't always possible because of dehydration and wore adult diapers.  The "Piddle Packs" they were given wasn't very easy to use and quite cumbersome.  To use the Piddle Packs, the pilot would have to fly the plane while unzipping his flight suit, connect himself to the Piddle Pack and do his business all the while flying the plane.  It was just easier and safer for them just to wear an adult diaper and relieve themselves in their flight suit.

ack-ack

[Guppy35]

im thinking you should be able to take a leak out of the waist gunner position.

as long as youre not at 25k.

just after takeoff or just before landing.

Ball turret gunners had a big gripe with folks who let fly out the bomb bay as it tended to freeze up on the outside of the ball turret.

[Guppy35]

The Lanc and other British heavies had what was called an Elsan toilet in the rear of the plane.  The biggest issue with that one, was guys freezing to the seat.

[Chalenge]

For those of you 'less endowed' individuals: 

The name of the song is "12 inch noodle" and none of Dos Gringos songs are safe for any environment...

http://www.dosgringosrocks.com/music-23.html

[Kweassa]

The Lanc and other British heavies had what was called an Elsan toilet in the rear of the plane.  The biggest issue with that one, was guys freezing to the seat.

You mean the butt cheeks freezing onto the toilet covers?

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zounds...

[Charge]

LOL Chalenge, that was a good one! 

-C+

[Scherf]

Poor guy. That must have SUCKED!

Lucky he didn't try to bale out.

[AKP]

Lucky he didn't try to bale out.

If he had been in a situation where he had to bail... I can just imagine the battle going through his mind...

"go down in flames... or rip it off... go down in flames... or rip it off... go down in flames... or rip it off... "

[Nemisis]

Tough decition. What would suck for him is if he tryed to rip it of and it scrathed him up and cut him. He eventually gets it off only to discover that the canopy is jamed and what a suprise he has bullet proof glass in his canopy.

[TheAce]

If he had been in a situation where he had to bail... I can just imagine the battle going through his mind...

"go down in flames... or rip it off... go down in flames... or rip it off... go down in flames... or rip it off... "

[Guppy35]

You mean the butt cheeks freezing onto the toilet covers?

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zounds...

Yep.  Apparently Bomber Command and 8th AF crews were known to drop the frozen solid at high altitude waste on to Germany hoping it might hit someone or something as well.

[lyric1]

B-25-H Dunny set up.

[OmegaZS]

I bet "depends" woulda been a welcome addition back then.