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Regular Joe
 
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I love that photo of the T-Bird ejection! I read the back story, they guy who took it was in the control tower, the plane was coming right at him. He had to decide whether to take the picture, or run like hell!
________________________________________________________________________ "Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there. Eighty are just targets. Nine are the real fighters and we are lucky to have them for they make the battle. Ah, but the one. One is a warrior, and he will bring the others back."
Heraclitus circa 500B.C.
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nomad (1/20/2007)
I'm guessing her RIO had more time in his seat than she had in hers, knew the were f***ed and tried to save them both.nomad, there is good chance that is what happened...but from what I understand she launched from the bird too but downward [into the sea] killing her instantly when she impacted the drink [her seat fired like .5 seconds after the RIO's].
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RangerRios (1/21/2007)
nomad (1/20/2007)
I'm guessing her RIO had more time in his seat than she had in hers, knew the were f***ed and tried to save them both.nomad, there is good chance that is what happened...but from what I understand she launched from the bird too but downward [into the sea] killing her instantly when she impacted the drink [her seat fired like .5 seconds after the RIO's]. Yeah, she was done for no matter what, but if the RIO had relied on her and not tried to punch them both out, he would have ended up in the drink with her.I've seen those T-Bird videos before. The inside the cockpit one is interesting. He looks so calm, like nothing is wrong, then BOOM, he's out!
________________________________________________________________________ "Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there. Eighty are just targets. Nine are the real fighters and we are lucky to have them for they make the battle. Ah, but the one. One is a warrior, and he will bring the others back."
Heraclitus circa 500B.C.
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RangerRios (1/19/2007)
SN, on some of the links I posted above it says that she was already " checked out" as a Tomcat pilot...the approach she died on was supposed to be just another routine landing. Of course any naval pilot will tell you there is nothing routine about a carrier landing. Also...the links above claim her bird went into the sea...what I gather from your post was that she burned into the carrier...her RIO ejecting before impact. Is that what happened? Apparently her RIO ejected in an upright attitude but she punched out downward sending her straight into the drink and killing her instantly [?]. You are correct that she was checked out in the Tomcat, this was her first operational (hence the no sh&t comment) landing as a qualified pilot.
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| I was on the Abe when that happened. Lots of talk about females not being able to cut it as fighter pilots or going to combat after that. (i dont mind having women on ships)there is a site called ejectionsite.com that has lots of ejection stories and pics. it even has the partial A-6 ejection told by the pilot and B/N. it might have something about her.
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