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thompsonx -> RE: Questions that never get a decent answer: (8/26/2016 7:58:22 AM)
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ORIGINAL: MasterG2kTR
ORIGINAL: thompsonx
ORIGINAL: jlf1961
Uh, when you jump from a very high altitude, you need an oxygen bottle so you can breath,
I found an interesting article in an old issue of approach magazine about a sailor who ejected while upside down in a thunder cloud.
He spent just under an hour in free fall.
Bullshit!
I found it. It is the may 1960 issue of approach.
The intro reads:
"An f8u on a two plane vfr flight from massachusetts to south carolina flamed out at 47,000 feet over n. carolina...
The pilot ejected directly over an extensive thunderhed estimated to have been 100 miles in diameter.The speed at the time of ejection was 210 kts. indicated airspeed.
His dramatic 40 minute 9 mile decent through a violent thunder storm was widlely, and somewhat inaccurately covered in the nation's press. However, because of it's great interest to approach readers, here is a more detailed account of the pilots experiences after ejection compiled from his statements the accident investigation."
The pilots description takes up two pages. If you are interested use the link I posted earlier and go to the approach archives for may 1960. It is a pretty interesting read....oh yes, that particular jarhead lived to fly another day...my bad I had forgotten that it was a jarehead airplane driver and not a squid.
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