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French Fighter Jet Joy Ride Goes Très, Très Wrong
Car and Diver ^
| Apr 13, 2020
| Ezra Dyer
Posted on 03/28/2022 11:52:38 AM PDT by null and void
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Retire they said.
Go for a fighter jet ride they said.
You'll have a blast they said...
To: null and void
At least he waited until they were off the ground!.............
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posted on
03/28/2022 11:55:53 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: null and void
I hope he got to keep the seat for his home office?
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posted on
03/28/2022 11:57:10 AM PDT
by
IllumiNaughtyByNature
(The kernel of our firm's job is to go with lots. - tnlibertarian job offer letter)
To: null and void
I wonder how many civilian and military violations will be discovered.
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posted on
03/28/2022 11:57:27 AM PDT
by
LukeL
To: null and void
That sounds like what would happen if somebody put Uncle Joe in the Pilot’s seat, wobbly helmet and all.
I’m surprised the Frenchman decided to go at all.
“The Horror! The Horror!”
To: null and void
Lol!
Hilarious
Ya gotta admit though....it’ll make killer bar story!
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posted on
03/28/2022 11:57:52 AM PDT
by
V_TWIN
(America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
To: IllumiNaughtyByNature
Yeah, but it will need ‘cleaning’..............
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posted on
03/28/2022 11:58:15 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: IllumiNaughtyByNature
Bet he has to sanitize it.
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posted on
03/28/2022 11:58:28 AM PDT
by
SkyDancer
( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
To: null and void
Apparently the guy must be illiterate as the ejection handle is usually painted bright yellow with black stripes and a big sign which says “PULL TO EJECT”. I think there’s also a retention pin you have to pull first.
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posted on
03/28/2022 12:00:08 PM PDT
by
Flick Lives
(The CDC. Brought to you by Pfizer)
To: null and void
Looking at the graphic, Monsieur Ejecto was extremely lucky the aircraft was nose up and gaining altitude when he decided to grab hold of the bang switch.
The results for him could have been a lot worse.
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posted on
03/28/2022 12:00:09 PM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Imagine, if you will, a vaccine so safe you have to be threatened to take it. )
To: null and void
Apres éjection...
Time for a smoke.
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posted on
03/28/2022 12:01:29 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: null and void
That is one memorable retirement gift!
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posted on
03/28/2022 12:01:54 PM PDT
by
KittyKares
(Trump put us in the room; now we're putting ourselves in the room. - Steve Bannon)
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posted on
03/28/2022 12:03:53 PM PDT
by
M Kehoe
(Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
To: Flick Lives
"Apparently the guy must be illiterate as the ejection handle is usually painted bright yellow with black stripes and a big sign which says “PULL TO EJECT”."
Maybe he couldn't read English 😁
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posted on
03/28/2022 12:04:47 PM PDT
by
Bikkuri
(I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
To: Red Badger
“At least he waited until they were off the ground!.............”
That Martin Baker ejection seat is good for a ground level ejection. You first take a short rocket ride and then the chute deploys.
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posted on
03/28/2022 12:04:57 PM PDT
by
cpdiii
(CANE CUTTER-DECKHAND-ROUGHNECK-OILFIELD CONSULTANT-GEOLOGIST-PILOT-PHARMACIST )
To: Red Badger
A midshipman on his summer cruise aboard my carrier dropped something he was fidgeting with while his F-4B familiarization ride was waiting for a trip to the catapult. As he bent over to pick it up, he steadied himself by hanging onto the face-curtain loop.
He ALMOST found out how far you can pull it before starting the ejection sequence. A flightdeck chief jumped on the bird and pounded on the canopy just in the nick of time.
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posted on
03/28/2022 12:05:31 PM PDT
by
Oscar in Batangas
(An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
To: Flick Lives
” big sign which says “PULL TO EJECT” “
That’s the problem — he doesn’t read English!
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posted on
03/28/2022 12:06:06 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
To: null and void
An E-ticket ride turned out to be ‘something more than that.’
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posted on
03/28/2022 12:09:25 PM PDT
by
Tallguy
To: null and void
All of us read absolutely atrocious writing these days, but author Ezra Dyer has written a superb piece! Very well written, flows logically, covers all the bases, leaves nothing unanswered and is just plain fun to read. Kudos to author Dyer!
To: null and void
pyrotechnics blasted a hole in the canopy and rocket motors fired the seat and its terrified denizen out into the slipstream high above the French countryside.
Best sentence fragment I've read all year.
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