gatordev said:When were you told that? I ask because about two months ago, I heard from the -34 model manager that maybe in a year or two they would start showing up.
FLY_USMC said:I agree..if someone said it..that worst case scenario I doubt many SNA's would have the state of mind to actually eject in time to save themselves early on, but I will also be the one to say in Fezz's defense...god rest their souls...a couple people in Corpus recently, and in the past, could've benefited from ejection seats, maybe?
Fly Navy said:but I'm willing to bed any stud...
zab1001 said:I bet you are, Liberace.
(sorry man...but that's asking for it. in before the edit)
I remember that when I was in -86. It was on an FCF, if memory serves.Steve Wilkins said:Not an SNA, but rather an IP, did bail out successfully back in the summer of '99.
Steve Wilkins said:Not an SNA, but rather an IP, did bail out successfully back in the summer of '99.
Well, maybe...I think he bailed over the Alabama swampsqueeze said:Wasn't he the moron who released his chute several hundred feet over the water?
Nope this guy made it back home OK. I suspect the "early release" guy was many years ago.squeeze said:Wasn't he the moron who released his chute several hundred feet over the water?
squeeze said:Wasn't he the moron who released his chute several hundred feet over the water?
squeeze said:Wasn't he the moron who released his chute several hundred feet over the water?
zippy said:According to what the IPs told us here, training used to call for the releasing of the chute when the individual was 10ft (or something like that)... appearently it was hazy that day and they think the IP misjudged his distance above the water when he released. The way we are taught now, we don't release until our feet touch the water.