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Random Griz Aviation Musings
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Chuck, why did they carpet the floor with dazzle camouflage?
Got a full chute opening before landing.
I can think of better ways to get a free tie.
The fact this this stuff works 100% of the time is amazing. And that humans routinely survive this method of escaping an aircraft.
What are you talking about? Were you not aware of the T6 seat debacle a decade ago?
Please tell us...
They work amazingly well, but I still remember this accident. T2 got a soft cat and the crew ejected…1992. Fellow TRACOM LSO.
Crash Death: A T-2 Buckeye jet trainer aircraft from VT-19 crashed immediately after launch from catapult one. The two-man crew ejection was initiated, and the front seat pilot was rescued. The rear seat pilot Lieutenant Thomas D. Waterbury was not located after an extensive search. His remains were later recovered still in his ejection seat.
At the bottom of this page is the full description.
Found another story. Sad part is they were just doing a good deal bag X after the completion of student CQ.
PENSACOLA _ The Navy called off a search Thursday for an instructor pilot whose jet trainer crashed Wednesday after taking off from the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal. Lt. Thomas D. Waterbury, 28, of Little Silver, N.J., was declared dead after searchers were unable to find him in the Gulf of Mexico. Waterbury, who was sitting in the back seat of the two-place T-2C Buckeye, and another instructor pilot, Lt. Jim Fisher, ejected almost immediately after the plane left the flight deck, officials said. A rescue helicopter plucked Fisher, unhurt, from the gulf about 70 miles south of Pensacola seven minutes later. The instructors had been getting in some extra landing and takeoff practice after student pilots had completed carrier qualifications, said Navy spokeswoman Michelle Harrison.
Crash Death: A T-2 Buckeye jet trainer aircraft from VT-19 crashed immediately after launch from catapult one. The two-man crew ejection was initiated, and the front seat pilot was rescued. The rear seat pilot Lieutenant Thomas D. Waterbury was not located after an extensive search. His remains were later recovered still in his ejection seat.
At the bottom of this page is the full description.
Found another story. Sad part is they were just doing a good deal bag X after the completion of student CQ.
PENSACOLA _ The Navy called off a search Thursday for an instructor pilot whose jet trainer crashed Wednesday after taking off from the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal. Lt. Thomas D. Waterbury, 28, of Little Silver, N.J., was declared dead after searchers were unable to find him in the Gulf of Mexico. Waterbury, who was sitting in the back seat of the two-place T-2C Buckeye, and another instructor pilot, Lt. Jim Fisher, ejected almost immediately after the plane left the flight deck, officials said. A rescue helicopter plucked Fisher, unhurt, from the gulf about 70 miles south of Pensacola seven minutes later. The instructors had been getting in some extra landing and takeoff practice after student pilots had completed carrier qualifications, said Navy spokeswoman Michelle Harrison.
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