To: djf
From what I've heard about ejecting ...File under "bad things that aren't as bad as the alternative."
10 posted on
09/14/2003 9:50:43 PM PDT by
dighton
(NLC™)
To: dighton
no kidding - those zero/zero ejection seats prove their worth again!
11 posted on
09/14/2003 9:52:23 PM PDT by
ahadams2
To: dighton
There was actually a case where a USMC F/A-18 smacked the ground--just flat-plated on the runway--during an airshow at El Toro. Didn't fireball, and from what I understand, the pilot got knocked silly, and then almost fired the ejection seat while the crash crew was opening up the cockpit!
12 posted on
09/14/2003 9:52:45 PM PDT by
Poohbah
(Hee Haw was supposed to be a television show...not the basis of a political movement...)
To: dighton
He'll probably get a few vicodins out of it. My neck is so sore! Whiplash!
13 posted on
09/14/2003 9:53:25 PM PDT by
djf
To: dighton
" "bad things that aren't as bad as the alternative."
I saw a Thrunderbird crash at the airshow at Transpo 72 at Dullas Airport. The plane was flying straight up when it lost power at about 2000 ft. The plane immediately starting falling, tail first. The pilot safely punch out. He then parachuted directly into the buring wreckage of the plane. He died.
15 posted on
09/14/2003 9:56:58 PM PDT by
Jeff Gordon
(Anyone who accepts the LA Times as the truth has no business calling anyone a RINO.)
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