I had my ACES-II replica already finished a long time ago, but since I have been looking at the real F-16, I am not any longer happy with my design. The real ACES II has lots of special shapes, which makes it difficult to build a matching mock-up, but it is not impossible to do. Specially the parachute-container is complicated to build, as the are no 90° angles at all. Fortunately a good friend, "Pogo" helped me a lot, as he was able to get two original parachute-containers and sold me one of them :-)))

This way the most difficult part was already done! Now I "only" had to install the container on top of my seat, but it turned to be out more difficult than I thought, as I didn't know how the base of the container really was, and my seat turned out to be about 3 cm too wide. L Therefore, get back to drawings and think about a way how to modify my seat so that the container would fit and the seat still would be looking good.

This is the present stage. Right now I am working with my CAD program and draw designs, and draw, and draw, and draw... (hope to be ready before the 22nd century ;-)

In order to make the building of your seat a little bit easier, I made a detailed drawing of the container, which might help you. .By the way a neat copy of the ACES-II can be found at http://go.to/simhangar at Chris "Speedone"'s page.

	Table of drawing parts
	Pictures from the ACES-II

No	Major	No	Minor	No	Component
00	Original	00	Stuhl	001	Parachute container
04	Stuhl	02	Instrumentsnträger links	001	Frontplatte
				002	Seitenteil
				003	MISC/ECM Träger
		03	Instrumentsnträger rechts	001	Frontplatte
				002	Seitenteil
				003	??? Träger
		01	Rückenteil	001	Seitenteil links
				002	Seitenteil rechts
				003	Rückwand
				004	Rückenfläche
				005	...
		02	Sitzteil	001	Seitenteil links
				002	Abstandsbalken links
				003	Sitzfläche
				004	Vorderteil
				005	Abstandsbalken rechts
				006	Seitenteil rechts

Well it still looks empty, but so far I have not gone any further for now. Just to make things interesting, here a picture of the original Aces II without parachute-container. Here you can see, how the chute-container is fixed at the top of the seat. This is achieved by cables which go along the inside of the seat.

On the other picture a view of the cute-container (from front left). The "ears" on each side of the container host the chute's strings.

Pictures from the ACES-II
ACES-II without parachute container	Parachute container	my ACES-II Rev. 1.0