Crash Photo w/parachute
Josh
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-Josh
SCallantin wrote:
>
> This links to a really cool photo. I have seen the full video and it was
> pretty amazing. I think, if I recall correctly, that the pilot lived. I am
> sure others here have seen this also, and correct me if I am wrong but it was
> at an air show in Eurpoe a few years ago.
>
> Enjoy
>
> Scott C.
>
> http://www.totavia.com/~ACybriw/aviapix/PostWW2/Fighters/Soviet/MiG29/mig2
> 9crash.gif
Robert Yoder
>
> This links to a really cool photo. I have seen the full video and it was
> pretty amazing. I think, if I recall correctly, that the pilot lived. I am
> sure others here have seen this also, and correct me if I am wrong but it was
>
> Enjoy
>
> Scott C.
>
> http://www.totavia.com/~ACybriw/aviapix/PostWW2/Fighters/Soviet/MiG29/mig29crash.gif
1989 Paris Air Show.
This was the reason lawn darts were banned in the U.S.
ry
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SCallantin
pretty amazing. I think, if I recall correctly, that the pilot lived. I am
sure others here have seen this also, and correct me if I am wrong but it was
mi...@spurgeon.net
scall...@aol.com (SCallantin) wrote:
> This links to a really cool photo. I have seen the full video and it was
> pretty amazing. I think, if I recall correctly, that the pilot lived. I am
> sure others here have seen this also, and correct me if I am wrong but it was
> at an air show in Eurpoe a few years ago.
Paris airshow. That week's 'Aviation Week' magazine had a series
of three pictures. The one after this one is even more impressive,
with the Mig29 exploding, the pilots ejection seat hitting the ground,
and the parachute fully blossoming as the pilot hits the ground in a
cloud of dust.
He got 'bumps and bruises'.
He ejected at just a few hundred feet, and those that know such details
will tell you about the ejection seat malfunction, which was visible
from the other side of the field.
Probably one or two feet lower on any of it, and it would have been
a parachuting fatality instead of a plane crash...
I've got the series of pics from Aviation Week somewhere if anyone's
interested. We were doing some Aces II ejection seat tests at the
time, so I was.
(and whoever said the photographer was lucky - it was a telephoto lens)
BS,
Mike Spurgeon
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Mark Poulter
matter-of-factly.
It all started with the loss of one of the fighter's two engines at a
critical moment....
Mark D2636.
>> This links to a really cool photo. I have seen the full video and it was
>> pretty amazing. I think, if I recall correctly, that the pilot lived. I
am
>> sure others here have seen this also, and correct me if I am wrong but it
was
>> at an air show in Europe a few years ago.
>>
>> Enjoy
>>
>> Scott C.
>1989 Paris Air Show.
skyb...@my-dejanews.com
the pilot lived, though you wouln't think it to look at the video...
In article <19990121212537...@ng35.aol.com>,
scall...@aol.com (SCallantin) wrote:
> This links to a really cool photo. I have seen the full video and it was
> pretty amazing. I think, if I recall correctly, that the pilot lived. I am
> sure others here have seen this also, and correct me if I am wrong but it was
> at an air show in Eurpoe a few years ago.
>
> Enjoy
>
> Scott C.
>
> http://www.totavia.com/~ACybriw/aviapix/PostWW2/Fighters/Soviet/MiG29/mig2
> 9crash.gif
skyb...@my-dejanews.com
Hamlet
SCallantin wrote in message <19990121212537...@ng35.aol.com>...
Josh
> (and whoever said the photographer was lucky - it was a telephoto lens)
>
Actually, I was referring to the timing, not the proximity.
-Josh
Rich
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mi...@spurgeon.net
Josh <fal...@seanet.com> wrote:
> mi...@spurgeon.net wrote:
>
> > (and whoever said the photographer was lucky - it was a telephoto lens)
> >
>
> Actually, I was referring to the timing, not the proximity.
Good point, but probably inevitable. This was the first time the Mig29
appeared anywhere outside the Soviet Union (correct me if I'm wrong),
and it had more cameras pointed at it than anything else at the airshow,
including 'interested' military as well as civilian. I believe
it was a Japanese photographer on the opposite side of the field that
caught the seat malfunction. (only one of two stabilizing probes extended
from the seat)
Combine a high speed ejection below minimums and pointed directly at the
ground with a malfunctioning seat and a parachute that fully opened at
moment of impact with a multimillion dollar lawn dart exploding a short
distance away and you redefine 'luck'. The series of pictures and video
show aircraft, seat, and pilot all hitting the ground in a very small
fraction of a second,(you can see the seat about 6 feet AGL in the photo
here) followed by a fireball.
And he couldn't avoid a PLF, since he hit at a pretty good angle. The
picture shows lower leg and hip points of impact.
bs,
Mike Spurgeon
Don Sluter
mi...@spurgeon.net wrote:
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>
> I've got the series of pics from Aviation Week somewhere if anyone's
> interested. We were doing some Aces II ejection seat tests at the
> time, so I was.
Mike,
I would appreciate copies, if you get time to email them.
Thanks,
>
>
> (and whoever said the photographer was lucky - it was a telephoto lens)
>
> BS,
BMurrish
Show. 1994
mi...@spurgeon.net
Don Sluter <dsl...@student.umass.edu> wrote:
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> I would appreciate copies, if you get time to email them.
My copies are in CA and I'm still in Ohio.
Any good library should have the pertinent issues of Aviation Week.
Someone else said it was 1989.
Ask me again in a week or so if you don't come up with them locally.
bs
mi...@spurgeon.net
bmur...@aol.com (BMurrish) wrote:
> got a friend who was there at Charles DeGualle Airport during the Paris Air
> Show. 1994
That sounds better. After a little thought, it couldn't have been 1989...
Tov
Don Sluter wrote in message <36A93C6A...@student.umass.edu>...
>
>
>mi...@spurgeon.net wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> I've got the series of pics from Aviation Week somewhere if anyone's
>> interested. We were doing some Aces II ejection seat tests at the
>> time, so I was.
>
>Mike,
>
>I would appreciate copies, if you get time to email them.
>
>Thanks,
>
>don
>dsl...@student.umass.edu
>
>>
>>
>> (and whoever said the photographer was lucky - it was a telephoto lens)
>>
>> BS,
>> Mike Spurgeon
>>
Tom Morris
SCallantin wrote:
> This links to a really cool photo. I have seen the full video and it was
> pretty amazing. I think, if I recall correctly, that the pilot lived. I am
> sure others here have seen this also, and correct me if I am wrong but it was
> at an air show in Eurpoe a few years ago.
>
The video has been on those "Truly Amazing Video" shows on TV a bunch of
times, attributed to the Paris Airshow. The pilot did not do a PLF, just landed
like a sack of potatoes, and lived to tell. The amount of canopy inflation you
see in the photo is pretty much all he had at impact. That poor Ivan *slammed*
in.
The narrators invariably point out that the pilot waited until the last
instant to punch out, bravely fighting for control of his stricken craft to avoid
injuring spectators. [Remember Ramstein AFB and the Italian demo team?] True or
not, it's a good story. I'm glad no one was hurt, but it breaks my heart to see
such a magnificent machine destroyed.
Mark Poulter
And if you have ever seen a Russian Jet up close
(I have AVALON air show Australia) you would see that
the paint job and exterior looks like someone has gone mad
with house paint - very crummy looking, but then their airforce
ain't after looks , just quick builds and "lastability."
The f-16's that were there on the other hand , well the exterior
of those things had to be seen to be believed!!
(Noisy bastards too!!)
Blue ones!
Mark D2636.
Peter
Tom Morris wrote in message <36AA72D0...@snowcrest.net>...
>[Remember Ramstein AFB and the Italian demo team?]
Yes. I was there.
Peter