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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Ron on March 23, 2019, 12:54:01 PM
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A 60 year old civilian guy was taken up on a joy ride and somehow managed to get ejected.
Pilot got some cuts but managed to land the jet without its canopy.
https://www.aerotime.aero/clement.charpentreau/22486-civilian-passenger-gets-unexpectedly-ejected-from-rafale-b-jet
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Don't touch the red handle.
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I'm going with camera strap.
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Didn't think you would be able to eject while still sitting on the ground.
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Didn't think you would be able to eject while still sitting on the ground.
Most seats (if not all) are now zero-zero. Zero altitude and zero airspeed. Luckily it wan't in command ejection, that would have been embarrassing to have both occupants spit out of the plane. Black and yellow striped handles. ;)
bob
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Didn't think you would be able to eject while still sitting on the ground.
They were airborne.
Many moons ago, ATC in the Marines. Slow as hell weekend day, we're sitting playing cards when we hear a whoosh sound and something goes flying by the windows. We run over and look, and in the ramp area in front of the tower there's a pair of Marines in coveralls running to pickup an ejection seat off the ramp, and an AV8B sans said seat.
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They were airborne.
Many moons ago, ATC in the Marines. Slow as hell weekend day, we're sitting playing cards when we hear a whoosh sound and something goes flying by the windows. We run over and look, and in the ramp area in front of the tower there's a pair of Marines in coveralls running to pickup an ejection seat off the ramp, and an AV8B sans said seat.
So, like, was there a Marine pilot in said ejection seat? If not -- who or what told it to part company with its assigned airframe?
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So, like, was there a Marine pilot in said ejection seat? If not -- who or what told it to part company with its assigned airframe?
Negative. Mechs were fixing something and somehow managed to set it off. Lucky it didn't kill or injure one of the idjits.
Seen some crazy *expletive deleted*it working there. 4 Harrier squadrons and an F5 squadron, and a ton of transient traffic from all 4 branches.
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They were airborne.
Many moons ago, ATC in the Marines. Slow as hell weekend day, we're sitting playing cards when we hear a whoosh sound and something goes flying by the windows. We run over and look, and in the ramp area in front of the tower there's a pair of Marines in coveralls running to pickup an ejection seat off the ramp, and an AV8B sans said seat.
I imagine that caused some moments of "what the *censored* was that???" amongst the ATC folk, not to mention the suddenly filled coveralls among the wrench turners.
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Every now and then you would hear of an ejection seat accident onboard a carrier, usually while the plane was in the hanger bay. That seldom turned out well. =|
bob
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Every now and then you would hear of an ejection seat accident onboard a carrier, usually while the plane was in the hanger bay. That seldom turned out well. =|
bob
I can't imagine how firing an ejection seat in any place with a roof would ever turn out well.