Posted on 01/05/2024 7:09:54 AM PST by george76
I made similar mistake in my first reading of article. The “60 miles” refers to a different event with a different pilot and different aircraft in 2023.
**60 miles for a jet at usual speed would be about 40 seconds or so. 600 mph == 10 miles in 1 minute**
Wouldn’t 10 miles per minute mean that 60 miles would take 6 minutes?
The good news here is that ACES II ejection seats worked and the crew survived. They get to go home tonight to their families.
Those aircrew were very, very lucky. Ejecting is better than crashing, but still an extremely hazardous thing to do. Even if you live, your body can still suffer severe damage.
Those aircrew were very, very lucky. Ejecting is better than crashing, but still an extremely hazardous thing to do. Even if you live, your body can still suffer severe damage.
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ACES II seat. You need to ride the rocket.
First the canopy goes.
Then a canon goes off to kick the seat out of the cockpit. Yeah, it’s a cannon. The seat is the projectile.
Then there’s about a six-foot cable connected between the cockpit floor and the firing pin on the rocket motor. The rocket has 6,000 pounds of thrust.
That’s a Hard Ride.
Worked F15s and F16s, both had the seat. Got lots of briefings.
All crashes are landings, not all landings are crashes.
Wouldn’t that be more like six minutes???
Diversity???
Weather conditions were freezing with very poor visibility. There have been a lot of Canadian geese flying around the base over the past few days, a bird strike seems plausible.
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They ejected after the crash?
Who writes the headlines these days? Chimps on acid?
Photo of downed aircraft at this link..
Air traffic over/from the base is locked down until January 19th.
Things you never want to hear at that point: Eject...Eject..Ej(boom).
Anything in the air can easily become an unguided projectile. This turned out as good as can be expected.
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