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Posted on 8/14/25 at 5:52 pm to METAL
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Renamed? Also, you’re talking callsigns here.
What you think it would be called it if it worked
Posted on 8/14/25 at 6:01 pm to MattA
How does this work?
Not that the plane shouldn't still be taxi'ing, looks like the pilot is getting the hell away. Honestly dont even have a guess at the protocol.
The guy pulled the election, launched, parachute....
Guessing the parachute is just laid out on the ground, but can the seat maybe not get high enough to deploy the chute? Seems like it just happened in the video and not even 10 seconds later.
Not that the plane shouldn't still be taxi'ing, looks like the pilot is getting the hell away. Honestly dont even have a guess at the protocol.
The guy pulled the election, launched, parachute....
Guessing the parachute is just laid out on the ground, but can the seat maybe not get high enough to deploy the chute? Seems like it just happened in the video and not even 10 seconds later.
This post was edited on 8/14/25 at 6:02 pm
Posted on 8/17/25 at 9:21 am to fightin tigers
Video is of the ejection
Posted on 8/17/25 at 11:47 am to METAL
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You don’t get renamed for someone else’s frick up. Unless he isn’t named yet of course.
In the world of aviators you absolutely can.
I listened to a podcast where the guys were talking about good sea stories. Kid was on his midshipmen cruise the summer before his last year and selected jets. In his first hop in the back of a T-38, they had a major engine failure and they had to punch out. Very first time up, the kid was a passenger and did nothing wrong. Oddly enough, he chose to stick with jets and the pilot that punched him out pinned his wings on him after he finished flight school.
His callsign was OT0L (pronounced O’Toole). It stood for “One Takeoff, 0 Landings.”
Aviators, especially Naval Aviators, are a harsh bunch.
Posted on 8/17/25 at 11:54 am to Shexter
So, here’s the background on this…
Backseat ride alongs are typically rewards for good performance….
The ONE RULE is don’t eject.
This person didn’t follow that rule- surely an accident, but happened nonetheless.
The systems know the altitude and compensate for that.
A ground level ejection means something really bad is happening and the person needs to get as far away as possible.
So the rocket is deployed at full tilt.
In this case, the ejectee didn’t drop the seat base (an additional 80 lbs.) and it made the landing even worse.
Result- people come back down ground perhaps an inch shorter, ruptured discs, and maybe even future scoliosis.
This was a major screw up.
Backseat ride alongs are typically rewards for good performance….
The ONE RULE is don’t eject.
This person didn’t follow that rule- surely an accident, but happened nonetheless.
The systems know the altitude and compensate for that.
A ground level ejection means something really bad is happening and the person needs to get as far away as possible.
So the rocket is deployed at full tilt.
In this case, the ejectee didn’t drop the seat base (an additional 80 lbs.) and it made the landing even worse.
Result- people come back down ground perhaps an inch shorter, ruptured discs, and maybe even future scoliosis.
This was a major screw up.
This post was edited on 8/17/25 at 11:56 am
Posted on 8/17/25 at 12:11 pm to MattA
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but sometimes life just finds a way.
In military aircraft, which are complicated machines, sometimes things just happen spontaneously. Back in 1991, during a tanking run, the Bombardier-Navigator's eject seat on the KA-6 just suddenly lit, but didn't completely eject. The flight officer in that seat was hanging partially out of the canopy, passed out from the lack of oxygen due to inability to breath at those speeds. Thankfully the pilot kept a cool head, and the BN survived the trap, but was in surgery and physical therapy for the next six months.
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