Question on F-5E instrument panel

[adeptitus]

(technically ROCAF and not PLAAF photo...)
http://taiwanairpower.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/f5e_cockpit_1.jpg

The photo is a late-model F-5E cockpit. If you look at lower right corner, you'd see a plastic strip with some Chinese writing on it, attached to this red plug like thing.

I looked around on the net and found similiar photos, with the red plastic strip lablled "REMOVE":
http://www.flightchief.com/photogallery/f-5/photo11.php

I found similiar on attached to some device under the aircraft as well:
http://www.flightchief.com/photogallery/f-5/photo17.php

It looks like some kind of safety pin? Does anyone know what it's used for in the cockpit?

[swimmerXC]

Top one pops opens the canopy so the ejector seat can blow out... although I think this one is for less severe incidents, ejector seat ones probably have one built in... but yeah the thing says "CANOPY JETTISON"
I don't know what the bottom one does...

[adeptitus]

Here's another strange one I found:
http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/060315-F-2383G-013.JPG

I found it here:
http://taiwanairpower.org/blog/?p=30

The posters claim that it's a "spin recovery chute". I can't imagine they'd mount the thing like that, it jut looks silly.

[swimmerXC]

Here's another strange one I found:
http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/060315-F-2383G-013.JPG

I found it here:
http://taiwanairpower.org/blog/?p=30

The posters claim that it's a "spin recovery chute". I can't imagine they'd mount the thing like that, it jut looks silly.

Yeah... it is a spin chute
Here's the samething on the F-22
http://www.edwards.af.mil/gallery/html_pgs/images/f-22/f22-37_300.jpg
Another on F-16
http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/photo/F-16AFTI/Small/ECN-22193.jpg
A close-up photo of the spin chute mounted on the rear fuselage of the AFTI F-16, a safety device designed to prevent the loss of aircraft in spin conditions. Under some circumstances, pilots cannot recover from spins using normal controls. It these instances, the spin chute is deployed, thus "breaking" the spin and enabling the pilot to recover. The spin chute is held in a metal cylinder attached to the AFTI F-16 by four tubes, a structure strong enough to withstand the shock of the spin chute opening. Unlike the air probe in the last photo, spin chutes are not standard equipment on research or prototype aircraft but are commonly attached expressly for actual spin tests.
Source (http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/photo/F-16AFTI/HTML/ECN-22193.html)

I reason why they stuck it on a F-22 since it's worth over 100 million :rofl:

Here's the little thing blowing off the X-29 (movie)
http://www1.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/Movie/X-29/HTML/EM-0035-06.html