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Skywarriors
 Post subject: Broken wings vid
PostPosted: 06 Dec 2007, 19:42 
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Not sure if posted before.

Would the A-10A pliot ejection be real or is this a test flight with a dummy? :shock:

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=wOQaMv2p3 ... re=related
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PostPosted: 06 Dec 2007, 19:54 
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His name was/is Maj. Francis Gideon jr.
This was during developement when a belch from the mighty GAU-8 shut-down both of the engines!

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PostPosted: 06 Dec 2007, 19:59 
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Was that the original \"Sabre Dance\" video?
I havent seen it in many years <S [salute]

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PostPosted: 06 Dec 2007, 20:46 
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boomer wrote:
His name was/is Maj. Francis Gideon jr.
This was during developement when a belch from the mighty GAU-8 shut-down both of the engines!


Both engines?

Hope he made it out okay. Doesn't look like fun when watching him eject....
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Had to laugh at the A-6 that missed it's trap. Both pilots eject, and then the bird climbs into the air on it's own. That'd be my kind of luck. Just when you punch out, the bird straightens up, and flies right on back to base and lands without me. :roll:

There is also another A-10 crash, at an airshow somewhere, on the video \"Broken Wings 2007.\" I think that's the one I've seen a series of stills from. There is a large \"97\" painted on the engine. Any body got the story behind that one?

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PostPosted: 06 Dec 2007, 23:40 
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Pilots takes always risks when they fly, this sort of video showed us.
For me are those men and women heroes.
Thanks for the vid fellow Dutchman Skywarriors.

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PostPosted: 07 Dec 2007, 00:03 
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The A-10 video shows why we now have continous ignition during gun firing. It also shows the Martin Baker ESCAPAC seat as it almost hits the pilot after the chute opened. Also a change since the orginal version of the Hog.

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Not trying to throw rocks coach but the ESCAPAC was a Douglas product. :wink: I worked the hog when it had the ESCAPAC seat in it!

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I'll take your word for it.

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There is also another A-10 crash, at an airshow somewhere, on the video \"Broken Wings 2007.\" I think that's the one I've seen a series of stills from. There is a large \"97\" painted on the engine. Any body got the story behind that one?


That was at the Paris Air Show in 1977, the aircraft failed to recover from a loop.
The Fairchild Republic test pilot Howard 'Sam' Nelson was killed.
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mark59 wrote:
Not trying to throw rocks coach but the ESCAPAC was a Douglas product. :wink: I worked the hog when it had the ESCAPAC seat in it!
As did I.

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