To: MyTwoCopperCoins
um ... didn’t happen at MACH 2, trust me.
2 posted on
07/27/2009 12:53:04 PM PDT by
Blueflag
(Res ipsa loquitur)
To: Blueflag
There was a story a while back about an F-15E pilot ejecting at or just above the sound barrier when his plane lost instruments and went out of control during a night-flying exercise. The laundry list of injuries he suffered makes it HIGHLY unlikely that a pilot would ever intentionally attempt it except to save their own lives. Broken bones, ruptured blood vessels, ligament damage...the best ejection seat in the world will get you out of the airplane, but it doesn’t help against hitting a 700+ mph slipstream.
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11 posted on
07/27/2009 12:59:23 PM PDT by
Moose4
(I took my car in for an alignment. Now my front end is chaotic evil.)
To: Blueflag
All the other arguments aside, let's not even get to the fact that in the image below, if the plane was going at MACH 2, for the height he ejected, the forward momentum of the plane should have him closer to the tail than right above the cockpit.
IMHO, the plane was going rather slow.
21 posted on
07/27/2009 1:06:44 PM PDT by
mnehring
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24 posted on
07/27/2009 1:09:08 PM PDT by
KeyLargo
To: Blueflag
I tend to agree with you. The SU35 might be able to do Mach 2 but I don't think that rocket assisted ejection seat will. He would have gone straight through the verticals.
To: Blueflag
Why the large down deflection on the elevators?
To: Blueflag
um ... didn’t happen at MACH 2, trust me. Totally correct.
Considering the flame and smoke patterns, that is an about 200-250 knot ejection.
62 posted on
07/27/2009 2:00:14 PM PDT by
MindBender26
("Ok, so I screwed up... again. I'm 65. What are they going to do, send me back to Vietnam again?)
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