Posted on 07/27/2009 12:51:02 PM PDT by MyTwoCopperCoins
Why the large down deflection on the elevators?
“punch out” — pull the loud handle — ride the fire — GTH out — EJECT!
Heading over to EAA's Airventure on Friday. Lots of aircraft in the sky as they make their way to Oshkosh.
Someone with some time on their hands and the right information could calculate how fast it was actually going if they new the vertical speed and angle of the ejection seat at any given speed, then, just compare that to the image. My guess, much closer to the plane’s minimum speed.
The front-seater later claims he flew beyond Mach 2.0 ... with an open canopy! And then he says: "While on this speed I even managed to pull out my fingers in glove for an inch or two outside - it became heated very fast because of immense friction force plane undergoes with the air."
The ejection didn't happen at Mach 2, but the pilot claims to have flown at Mach 2 without a canopy.
Original story with more photos here.
I would assert that a mach1+ (even mach 3) ejection is survivable.
http://www.alexisparkinn.com/sr-71_break-up.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMyC2urCl_4 (see 3:03 and later in video)
ensure clearance for the ejecting passenger. i.e., move the plane away from the seat.
I'm bettin' on the F-22. Especially if the Sukhoi pilot has bailed out.
pit a SU35-UB against a F-22 Raptor. Wonder who would have the edge?
Ever see a lion take on a cheetah?
I think that lump in the background - the one that looks like a large armadillo being covered with a tarp - is probably what’s left of the guy who bailed out.
Ping
Hooboy - I thought it was an email ... YIKES!!! Heat got to me .... hope the moderator can pull it!
Sounds like you know more than most.
You should make and about page.
Thanks for the insight./
Possible you could pull that personal post to northern yankee ...???? I thought it came in as an email ....
SERKIT,
I fly an RV6a with a canopy. No way I fly with it off or open And I go about 150 mph.
You’ll get the mods attention faster if you just hit the “report abuse” button on the post you want pulled.
KEABOP. Russian for bubba. “Hey yall, watch this”.
Where? I don’t see it
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