Great shot of the Thunderbird F-16 Ejection

Dudley

I've been tryng to contact you off News Group with no joy. What am I
doing wrong?

Big John

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:17:04 GMT, "Dudley Henriques"
wrote:


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Over on "alt.binaries.pictures.aviation" someone has posted a
terrific, high
resolution, nearly head-on shot of the Air Force Thunderbird F-16
ejection
sequence from the crash in Idaho a few months ago. It REALLY shows
how
close the pilot came to hitting the deck before ejecting.

What appears to be cockpit video of the incident can be found at:

http://s91499480.onlinehome.us/vids/

No background info given, but it sure seems to be genuine. 4 meg
download.
There's also the classic video of the moron giving himself helicopter
lessons.


Wow, no one has accused this of being phoney video? No one has asked why
the T-Birds would be flying with a camera trained on the pilot? No one
has asked
how the tape survived the fireball? No one asked how this video showed up
on
a strange little website without explanation? This group is starting to
disappoint me . . .

I can't account for why the group would be disappointing you, but the
Thunderbirds tape every show and every practice without fail, for review and
criticism in the post flight debrief.
The in-plane camera and the HUD camera are designed to survive the crash.
The ejection shot came from a controller on the ledge of the tower at
Mountain Home and would usually become a part of the AF investigation team's
evidence. Normally, something like this would remain in house, but the
shot's release to the public is no big surprise to anyone.
Anything else you need to know, just ask. There's a fairly good chance that
someone in this group that seems to be disappointing you so much will have
the correct answer.
:-)))
Dudley Henriques
International Fighter Pilots Fellowship
Commercial Pilot/ CFI Retired
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