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To: Riptides
I'm surprised that he survived ejecting at over 750 MPH.

The fastest ejection out of a production aircraft, where the pilot lived, was a Russian pilot in a MiG-25 at Mach 2.5 or 2.6. Amazingly enough, it was an older ejection seat, I think the KM-1 (MiG-21 era I believe), instead of the K-36s, which you have probably seen a demonstration of at the Paris Air Show.
28 posted on 08/03/2006 8:58:00 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: upchuck

Fer yer SC ping list, pardner. :-)


29 posted on 08/03/2006 9:08:20 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama (Al-Queda can recruit on college campuses but the US military can't! --FReeper airborne)
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