[Image] F-16 Ejection

[Squeeky]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/040204/480/vg10102042024&e=2


http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20040204/capt.vg10102042024.thunderbirds_crash_vg101.jpg

Seen in a photo released Friday, Jan. 30, 2004 by the U.S. Air Force, Capt. Christopher Stricklin ejects from the USAF Thunderbirds number six aircraft less than a second before it impacted the ground at an air show at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, Sept. 14, 2003. Stricklin, who was not injured, ejected after both guiding the jet away from the crowd of more than 60,000 people and ensuring he couldn't save the aircraft. This was only the second crash since the Air Force began using F-16 Falcons for its demonstration team in 1982. Nobody was injured in the crash. The Air Force blamed the incident on pilot error. The Thunderbirds are based at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/ Bennie J. Davis III/U.S. Air Force)

[Fragmatic]

woah

[Firefly]

The Air Force blamed the incident on pilot error

Tough decision. Bail out, and shoot your career in the foot, or ride the bird home and allow your next of kin and surviving relatives easy living.

[Happy lil Elf]

That man has balls.

[Squeeky]

That man has balls.

For flying as a part of an Aviation demonstration team? Or for ejecting.

[Fragmatic]

Both

[Dharkbayne]

Ejecting that low would be kinda, bad, chutes don't work unless you use them at atleast 600 feet up I think,

[Rbstr]

Only 2 accidents in the last 22 years? Not bad

[l3lizz4rd]

I've got both the in-cockpit video as well as the one taken from the crowd perspective. Hit me up on AIM or IRC if someone wants to host them.

[Squick]

Air Force blamed the incident on pilot error.

OUCH! Thats gona be bad for him...

[martyr]

Ejecting that low would be kinda, bad, chutes don't work unless you use them at atleast 600 feet up I think,

600 feet in any direction. he still went a lot more than 600 feet horizontal, allowing plenty of time for the chute to deploy.

[Dharkbayne]

Ahhhh...

[Fragmatic]

All hail Martyr, the fountain of all knowledge!

[Neon Apocalypse]

ohshitcourtmartialandjail

[Peacemaker]

600 feet in any direction. he still went a lot more than 600 feet horizontal, allowing plenty of time for the chute to deploy.

Modern ejection seats are zero zeros. You can be at zero speed and at ground level and the chute will save you if you eject. The only way he coulda bit the big one was if he had it upside down and ejected.

[ZeusCali]

that sounds pain ful, nice job to the pilot saved lives....even if he maybe did fark up the flight :thumbsup:

[Peacemaker]

Ah just to elaborate on what I said. A parachute can open in one hundred feet of clearence. if that wasnt true a bridge base jumper would be screwed wouldnt he? (Granted those are parasails most of the time)

[Squeeky]

http://s87589828.onlinehome.us/tbird1.wmv
http://s87589828.onlinehome.us/tbird2.wmv

Videos courtesy of Blizz, hosting courtesy of yours truly.

[Squeeky]

http://s87589828.onlinehome.us/eject.jpg

^^2.3mb picture, high res of the ejection, my new desktop, fucking COOL!

[Neon Apocalypse]

i dont like picture desktops, 3d art is better IMO

[Happy lil Elf]

For flying as a part of an Aviation demonstration team? Or for ejecting.
For both of those and for having the coolness and presence of mind to get the aircraft away from the crowd before bailing.

[Squeeky]

For both of those and for having the coolness and presence of mind to get the aircraft away from the crowd before bailing.

It would have been eleventy times cooler if he landed in the audience.

[EarlyDawn]

:rofl:

[Squick]

Amazing video! Gives a good perspective of how little time he had.

[EarlyDawn]

Didn't seem to panic or anything, either. Waited for the last minute and punched out.

[Strygun]

Modern ejection seats are zero zeros. You can be at zero speed and at ground level and the chute will save you if you eject.

If I remember correctly, modern ejection-seat parachutes are jet powered, AKA, they are fired away (and open) from the seat with small jets, which open the parachutes no matter how fast or how far you've gone.

[EarlyDawn]

Yeah. Explosive bolts on the bottom of the seat. My old Bio teacher got to go out with a truck and a small group in 'Nam and disarm them, then salvage your plane when you got shot down. =/ Nasty stuff.

[Squeeky]

If I remember correctly, modern ejection-seat parachutes are jet powered, AKA, they are fired away (and open) from the seat with small jets, which open the parachutes no matter how fast or how far you've gone.

That's how they've been since their invention.

[Navaron]

Holy. Shit. Nice finds.

[Happy lil Elf]

It would have been eleventy times cooler if he landed in the audience.Does anyone else wonder if Squeeky sometimes decides to write posts with an open can of wood stain in his lap while sitting in a poorly ventilated room?

[Sputty]

That's how they've been since their invention.
At the invention you had to open the canopy and jump out. Although, many planes didn't have canopies anyway. Although, during WWI parachutes weren't given to pilots because bailing was considered cowardly

[Smaug]

I remember hearing this on the news. I went to see the nellis air show, in about uhhh can't remember, probably last summer. Saw the thunderbirds, those guys are awesome.

[Ivan]

Stricklin, who was not injured, ejected after both guiding the jet away from the crowd of more than 60,000 people and ensuring he couldn't save the aircraft. :clap: :thumbsup:

[HawkEye]

i cuoldnt watch teh first video, got an error that said source filter for this file can not be loaded. wtf does that mean?

[Ivan]

i cuoldnt watch teh first video, got an error that said source filter for this file can not be loaded. wtf does that mean?Same here.

[Triggar]

Wow, "pilot error". In the Thunderbirds.

How embarassing for the pilot.

[Squeeky]

Does anyone else wonder if Squeeky sometimes decides to write posts with an open can of wood stain in his lap while sitting in a poorly ventilated room?

k that made me laugh :lol:

[EarlyDawn]

Right-Click---> Save As

May have been his fault, maybe not. But Every single person in that audience is lucky it's HIM who fucked up and some rookie who may have freaked and caused a huge accident.

[Squeeky]

http://s87589828.onlinehome.us/eject.jpg

^^2.3mb picture, high res of the ejection, my new desktop, fucking COOL!

Quoted just because this fucking rocks.

[Ivan]

:banplz::lol:

[arctik]

The video made it look like it wasn't totaly his fault, if he didnt eject he woulda just died. power to the pilot

[l3lizz4rd]

The video made it look like it wasn't totaly his fault, if he didnt eject he woulda just died. power to the pilot

http://www.f-16.net/f-16_news_article968.html

Accident report. Was his fault, honest mistake, but definitely his fault.

According to the accident investigation board report the pilot, 31-year-old Captain Chris Stricklin, misinterpreted the altitude required to complete the "Split S" maneuver. He made his calculation based on an incorrect mean-sea-level altitude of the airfield. The pilot incorrectly climbed to 1,670 feet above ground level instead of 2,500 feet before initiating the pull down to the Split S maneuver.

...

The difference in altitudes at Nellis and Mountain Home may have contributed to the pilot's error. The airfield at Nellis is at 2,000 feet whereas the one at Mountain Home is at 3,000 feet. It appears that the pilot reverted back to his Nellis habit pattern for s aplit second. Thunderbird commander Lt. Col. Richard McSpadden said Stricklin had performed the stunt around 200 times, at different altitudes during his year as a Thunderbird pilot.

[BUGGER]

o f n, yet that pic seems new to me.



Kinda funny, looks like a weird looking alien hovering over the plane rather than the pilot.

[Squeeky]

Not ***, for fucks sake it's less than 48 hours old.

[Biohazzard56]

At first i thought this thread was called F16 Ejaculation :lol:

[AztecWarrior]

At first i thought this thread was called F16 Ejaculation :lol:
Die, please.

[BUGGER]

Not ***, for fucks sake it's less than 48 hours old.
no i heard of it from a friend that actually went to that show (atleast i'm pretty sure it was that one).

Yes that article is like yesterday, it has yesterday writtin like on the first line.

[l3lizz4rd]

no i heard of it from a friend that actually went to that show (atleast i'm pretty sure it was that one).

Yes that article is like yesterday, it has yesterday writtin like on the first line.
It happened last September... but the Accident Report and photos were just released.
Hence it's O F N with a dash of, not really O F N at all.

[BUGGER]

Ya. I swear my friend got like clear shots of the plane going down, or atleast the very exact plane as it was still in shape.

[Indecisive]

The piolet cam video refuses to download, it renames itself to the second one. Try renaming the file to something besides "tbird#"

It was acting strange for some things i was trying to upload as well.