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To: BenLurkin

I stay out of those death traps

Some even have parachutes if you get lucky


5 posted on 03/08/2023 8:27:26 AM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: NWFree

“Some even have parachutes if you get lucky”

If you can’t get a car door at 60MPH open to jump out, then how are you going to get an aircraft door at 100+MPH open? Parachute jumps are done at low speed and often from a door at the rear of the plane designed to get open at speed or are not even on the aircraft when it departed. None of these conditions are likely to be met in a situation where they weren’t deliberately made to happen. You don’t want to jump out of the plane and turn into a very large bird-strike or lawn dart.

wy69


23 posted on 03/08/2023 9:10:01 AM PST by whitney69
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To: NWFree

“Some even have parachutes if you get lucky”

If you can’t get a car door at 60MPH open to jump out, then how are you going to get an aircraft door at 100+MPH open? Parachute jumps are done at low speed and often from a door at the rear of the plane designed to get open at speed or are not even on the aircraft when it departed. None of these conditions are likely to be met in a situation where they weren’t deliberately made to happen. You don’t want to jump out of the plane and turn into a very large bird-strike or lawn dart.

wy69


24 posted on 03/08/2023 9:10:01 AM PST by whitney69
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