Aircraft Ejection Video

[Andy_Copland 0]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d74_1235356158

How close can you cut it?

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Until morale improves, the beatings will continue.

[JohnMitchell 16]

That's an amazing one. There more than a few airshow clips out there with last moment ejections. I remember a Russian punching out of a Mig, with a famous pic of the nose of the Mig sticking in the ground, looking like a lawn dart, a split second before the fireball.

First man on the moon, Neil Armstrong, ejected at less than the last second out of a lunar lander trainer. This accident was about 2 months before his lunar landing.

http://ideltav.com/images/lunar_1_um9l.jpg

His coworkers were surprised to find him an hour later at his desk, catching up on paperwork. All in a day's work.

[shropshire 0]

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[ryoder 1,590]

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That's an amazing one. There more than a few airshow clips out there with last moment ejections. I remember a Russian punching out of a Mig, with a famous pic of the nose of the Mig sticking in the ground, looking like a lawn dart, a split second before the fireball.[/url]

http://www.hep.uiuc.edu/home/g-gollin/mig29_crash.jpg

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[piisfish 140]

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That's an amazing one. There more than a few airshow clips out there with last moment ejections. I remember a Russian punching out of a Mig, with a famous pic of the nose of the Mig sticking in the ground, looking like a lawn dart, a split second before the fireball.[/url]

http://www.hep.uiuc.edu/home/g-gollin/mig29_crash.jpg

here's the video www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL1FblthxQ0

scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM

[Andy_Copland 0]

Wow

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People aint made of nothin' but water and shit.

Until morale improves, the beatings will continue.

[SARLDO 0]

Reminds me of the guy I watched punch out of an AV-8B as his aircraft started going over the brow (that's the front of the ship for you land lovers ) of an LHD . He came really close to calling it a life that day. Oh yea, I never stood on the foul line up forward after that day either.

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest" ~Samuel Clemens

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[councilman24 37]

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Reminds me of the guy I watched punch out of an AV-8B as his aircraft started going over the brow (that's the front of the ship for you land lovers ) of an LHD . He came really close to calling it a life that day. Oh yea, I never stood on the foul line up forward after that day either.

I thought BROW was the gangway, and BOW was the front. Although I did find several other misspellings.

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[ryoder 1,590]

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http://www.hep.uiuc.edu/home/g-gollin/mig29_crash.jpg

here's the video www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL1FblthxQ0

No matter how many times I see that, I can't figure out how that canopy could save his ass when it didn't even have time to finish inflating.

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[TEXX56 0]

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First man on the moon, Neil Armstrong, ejected at less than the last second out of a lunar lander trainer. This accident was about 2 months before his lunar landing.

http://ideltav.com/images/lunar_1_um9l.jpg

His coworkers were surprised to find him an hour later at his desk, catching up on paperwork. All in a day's work.

that's just the mentality of a test pilot (for ex. in ten seconds the plan will crash, a regular pilot would eject once he knew it was going to crash but a test pilot would go "hell i've got ten seconds why not save this bird?" and then eject at the last second, from what i was told NASA was looking for that kind of pilot when they started out and im pretty sure they still do.

[ltdiver 3]

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http://www.hep.uiuc.edu/home/g-gollin/mig29_crash.jpg

here's the video www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL1FblthxQ0

No matter how many times I see that, I can't figure out how that canopy could save his ass when it didn't even have time to finish inflating.

I don't understand Russian, however in the comments section of the video someone wrote that the jet's explosion produced enough force to blow the canopy open, otherwise it would have still been streamering in. Wow.

Quote: "In this Video focus isn't on plain crash it's about pilot surviving. He didn't have chance to survive because he and jet were falling with same speed as fighter but fortunately for pilot when fighter exploded it blew enough air into the parachute to slow it down :) you see what i'm talkin about? Now check out 2:03"

ltdiver

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[AggieDave 6]

Translation for DZ.com:


Low time jumper who was told he was a natural was flying a "canopy" that was too aggressive with too high of a wingloading for his experience level. This was a contributing factor to the "swooper" making a low maneuver at a new DZ with a different field altitude than his home DZ...

Right?

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[diablopilot 2]

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however in the comments section of the video someone wrote that the jet's explosion produced enough force to blow the canopy open, otherwise it would have still been streamering in.

I don't buy that. What I saw was a normal deployment sequence of a round canopy. They don't snivel like a square but they often "squid" a 50 feet HIGHER he may have had worse injuries and 50 feet lower and he might not have made it.

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[akjmpplt 0]

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someone wrote that the jet's explosion produced enough force to blow the canopy open, otherwise it would have still been streamering in. Wow.

Problem is there was no explosion, that's simply a fireball -- quick burning -- but not an explosion and has minimal "force" exerted from it. That parachute just did what rounds do.

SmugMug

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Reminds me of the guy I watched punch out of an AV-8B as his aircraft started going over the brow (that's the front of the ship for you land lovers ) of an LHD . He came really close to calling it a life that day. Oh yea, I never stood on the foul line up forward after that day either.

I thought BROW was the gangway, and BOW was the front. Although I did find several other misspellings.

I stand corrected, I did mean BOW not Brow. Give me a break, i'm an airdale not a "black-shoe" sailor.

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest" ~Samuel Clemens

MB#4300
Dudeist Skydiver #68

[EvilEagle 0]

[replythat's just the mentality of a test pilot (for ex. in ten seconds the plan will crash, a regular pilot would eject once he knew it was going to crash but a test pilot would go "hell i've got ten seconds why not save this bird?" and then eject at the last second, from what i was told NASA was looking for that kind of pilot when they started out and im pretty sure they still do.

[JohnMitchell 16]

Back when that one happened, I read that the ground was soft from a lot of recent rains, helping the pilot avoid serious injury. He certainly needed a little help on the bottom end of that skydive.

[Andy9o8 2]

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however in the comments section of the video someone wrote that the jet's explosion produced enough force to blow the canopy open, otherwise it would have still been streamering in.

I don't buy that. What I saw was a normal deployment sequence of a round canopy. They don't snivel like a square but they often "squid" a 50 feet HIGHER he may have had worse injuries and 50 feet lower and he might not have made it.

That's exactly the way I saw it, too. The canopy was just about to "exhale" when he touched down. Impeccable timing.

[piisfish 140]

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ANY pilot is going to stay until the last possible second trying to save it. (not just test pilots as you implied)

THIS ONE still had 2 seconds to try

scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM