[Delta 21]

Pilot error.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

firing in a very high G turn? - Tenacious 1

The opposite, I think.

Pilot error.

Grumman Test Pilot Don Evans

( http://www.grummanpark.org/content/don-evans-grumman-test-pilot-–-flight-no-8 but for some reason making a link to it doesn’t work right)

told of making the mistake of raising the nose of his Sabre and firing a clearing burst to validate his guns’ functionality on the approach of a combat situation.

He then brought the nose back down - with the result that he overtook his own “ammunition,” as this article puts it, and damaged his own plane.

[bigbob]

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