September 20, 20178 yr WOW! Heard stories about bringing them home via refueling probe. This one is incredible! Thanks for sharing Gunter. FS RTWR SHRS F-111 JoinFS Little Navmap
September 20, 20178 yr Re: Pardo's Push. Got to love this quote: "Ironically, the U.S. Air Force leadership in Southeast Asia was so sensitive to combat losses during the war that Pardo was actually reprimanded for the loss of his F-4." | Windows 11 | ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z790 HERO | i9-14900K | RTX 4090 | 64GB CORSAIR VENGEANCE DDR5 | 4TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2 | 2x 4TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2 | CORSAIR AX1600i ATX Titanium | LG C2 42 Inch 4K OLED |
September 21, 20178 yr It is remarkable that they were all hurt during the ejection (or the landing), even so it was a controlled ejection. Ejection seats have improved quite a bit since then. Nowadays severe injuries as in that case are very rare, especially in a controlled ejection where you are not too fast and are able to adjust your position in the seat in time. Regards Gunter Schneider
September 22, 20178 yr Author I came upon this video on the F104. Enlightening. The World is divided into two groups. Those who say "Give me a link" and those that provide the link. WWG1WGA
September 23, 20178 yr Very good, watch the short landing sequence at about 1:00 minute in the video and you can almost feel the landing speed! Regards Gunter Schneider
September 23, 20178 yr Thanks, Ron. For the linguistically-challenged, here is the original Aussie commentary version. --Mike MacKuen
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