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Hungarian Pilot Punches Out Of His Saab Gripen During Emergency Landing
Photo credits: AP , MTI , CTK , Josef Vostarek Foxtrot Alpha Jalopnik ^
| 6/13/15
| Máté Petrány
Posted on 06/13/2015 7:44:14 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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To: sukhoi-30mki
Awesome Hungarian Pilots!
My fellow Magyars!!!
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posted on
06/13/2015 7:47:43 PM PDT
by
Erik Latranyi
(President Walker - Attorney General Cruz (enforcing immigration laws for real))
To: sukhoi-30mki
That sucks to lose a good airplane like that. Pilot tried to save it, hard decision.
Watched several F-4 Phantoms with landing gear malfunctions belly in. Scary, one at night trailed flaming fuel from the wing tanks. Catching the arresting gear while sliding seemed to be an iffy proposition.
To: doorgunner69
Funny thing about landing with gear up the brakes don’t work too well.
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posted on
06/13/2015 7:51:04 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: central_va
And then they foam the runway so you slide like crazy..............
To: doorgunner69
There are two kinds of pilots, those that have made a gear up landing and those that are going to make a gear up landing.
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posted on
06/13/2015 7:57:40 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: doorgunner69
I wonder if he may have faired a little better trying to slide her in on the grass?
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posted on
06/13/2015 8:04:43 PM PDT
by
2111USMC
(Aim Small Miss Small)
To: sukhoi-30mki
Hungary needs an airforce WHY?..
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posted on
06/13/2015 8:21:01 PM PDT
by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
To: 2111USMC
“I wonder if he may have faired a little better trying to slide her in on the grass?”
Hard to say but maybe it would have “dug in” and flipped.
To: sukhoi-30mki
Couldn’t know it at the time but from the video, he would have been better off staying with the plane.
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posted on
06/13/2015 8:23:43 PM PDT
by
fso301
To: fso301
And risk serious injury/loss of a well-trained pilot?
To: sukhoi-30mki
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posted on
06/13/2015 8:29:17 PM PDT
by
TChad
To: sukhoi-30mki; Pukin Dog
Seems we had a lively thread with Pukin’ Dog years ago about pilots punching out vs. staying with the plane. It got animated.
To: sukhoi-30mki
"Still, at least the plane came to a halt in one piece, which means she will fly again. "
To: hosepipe
Hungary needs an airforce WHY?.. Because they border not-yet-completely-occupied-Ukraine.
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posted on
06/13/2015 8:36:02 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(The 1st amendment is the voice and the 2nd is the teeth of freedom. Obama wants to knock out both.)
To: sukhoi-30mki; dfwgator
"I will not buy this jet. It is scratched."
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posted on
06/13/2015 8:40:09 PM PDT
by
DCBryan1
(No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
To: sukhoi-30mki
latest candidate for the Martin-Baker Fan Club...
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posted on
06/13/2015 8:58:35 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: hosepipe
"Hungary needs an airforce WHY?.." To prevent a repeat of the decades long Soviet Occupation?
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posted on
06/13/2015 9:30:56 PM PDT
by
Rodney Dangerfield
(Why did Nero fiddle while Rome burned? Because Golf hadn't been invented yet.)
To: doorgunner69
In the early 70s I was a crew chief in Barrier Maintenance at Taegu AB, Korea. We had a ROKAF F-4C hit the barrier (BAK-12) at about 150 Kts and even after dumping as much fuel as possible, weighing over 40klbs. He had zero hydraulics and his fuel dumps were stuck open so when he stopped the aircraft was totally engulfed in flames. I thought the crew was toast. The USAF fire dept. guys had that fire out so quick it didn't even singe the paint.
It was one of the most memorable engagements I ever saw. With the speed and weight factors it was what was referred to as a Regime 4 engagement and required both the cable and tape be changed which was no fun at all.
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posted on
06/13/2015 9:34:00 PM PDT
by
Jaxter
(Si vis pacem para bellum.)
To: hosepipe
Because the Russians (Putin) are coming.
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posted on
06/13/2015 9:36:50 PM PDT
by
5th MEB
(Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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