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re: Did the RAF pilots seem to eject a little too early?
Posted on 9/24/26 at 11:25 am to AUTimbo
Posted on 9/24/26 at 11:25 am to AUTimbo
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Bangs on take-off, accompanied by orange flame out of engine usually mean a compressor stall.
From the oscillations as they tried to gain altitude they were having severe intermittent loss of thrust or the engine grenaded and possibly damaged/destroyed flight controls.
Read a report yesterday on the Thunderbirds pilot that ejected a couple of years back. His engine grenaded and he nursed the plane along for FOUR MINUTES in an area where he would have been safe to eject. Obviously not your average pilot but damn who would stay with a plane for four minutes that has thrown four blades in the turbine and was losing power?
Posted on 9/24/26 at 1:11 pm to LChama
Are you calling them a premature ejector?
Posted on 9/24/26 at 1:38 pm to LChama
Naw. It was going straight. Probably just tied the steering wheel to something to keep it that way. And then ejected.
Posted on 9/24/26 at 2:42 pm to SoDakHawk
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Saw the thread title and saw RAF and my mind went to WW2 RAF. Those guys were some bad arse mofos
My grandpa was a RAF pilot. Northern Africa. My mom said he didn’t talk much and drank a lot so im sure he saw some shite.
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