Posted on 04/13/2020 4:38:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway
When you got to go, you got to go ……….
When you got to go, you got to go ……….
If that’s the worst that happened to him, he fared better than I would have. I would have had a heart attack for sure. 8>)
Well, there is that! LOL
DON’T TOUCH THAT BUTTON, DON’T TOUCH THAT BUTTON! AW SCHIPP!!
He did what most cheese eating surrender monkeys would do!
I assume he had a white flag in one hand and pocket full of world flags in preparation for the invasion of France... The defense of France requires all citizens to carry the flags of other nations and to furl and wave the flag of any nation that sends in an invading force.
Walked toward Germany and surrendered after he landed?
...Except (your last link) that the trigger for the pilot's seat was damaged by the blast that ejected the passenger first.
Well, that's a heck of a design.
If I am ever about to do so, someone please remind me not to go flying in any French designed planes...
Yeah, got that. It was reported 4 days before the accident, “The reason for the failure of the pilot’s ejection seat in the escape sequence was reported as, “The explosion [from the initial rear seat ejection] ruptured the casing of the sequence selector supposed to trigger the pilot ejection seat.”
It was “reported as?” And Lee Harvey Oswald attacked alone. The seat in the aircraft system is the improved single pull action of the twin pull of the F-15 Dynamic Motion Seat designed for their bodies. And they worked fine. I believe none of what I hear and only half of what I see.
A good article on these devices, if you have an interest and are curious about the “accident,” is from PACSI EMC:
https://psemc.com/solutions/military-aircraft-ejection/
rwood
I searched for that story. I think it might be this:
https://www.pilotsofamerica.com/community/threads/kid-killed-in-navy-ejection-seat.123269/
Freegards
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