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To: T-Bone Texan

IIRC, Gary Powers ejected from his U-2 at very high altitude over the Soviet Union. We were stunned when he was captured alive because we didn’t think ejection was survivable from that altitude.


16 posted on 09/21/2016 8:05:54 AM PDT by riverdawg
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To: riverdawg

He did not eject. He was ejected. He popped the canopy and then was thrown out of the tumbling wreck. I don’t think his aircraft had an ejection seat. Some early U-2s didn’t.


17 posted on 09/21/2016 8:50:07 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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