[Image] F-16 Ejection

[Sputty]

Originally Posted by Squeeky

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.

[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]

Originally Posted by 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?

Same here.

[Triggar]

Wow, "pilot error". In the Thunderbirds.

How embarassing for the pilot.

[Squeeky]

Originally Posted by Happy lil' Elf

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

[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]

Originally Posted by 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]

[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]

Originally Posted by 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

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.

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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