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On Jun 1, 7:23 am, "Dan Luke" wrote:
"Another said, 'It went lower and lower and in a little bit three parachutes came out and then the plane hit the ground.' " There was only the pilot aboard. A military spokeman said, "The airplane has pretty much impacted the ground" Well, that pretty much sums up most accidents... |
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![]() "Kingfish" wrote in message ups.com... On Jun 1, 7:23 am, "Dan Luke" wrote: "Another said, 'It went lower and lower and in a little bit three parachutes came out and then the plane hit the ground.' " There was only the pilot aboard. A military spokeman said, "The airplane has pretty much impacted the ground" Well, that pretty much sums up most accidents... "It's not flying that's dangerous, it's the hard impact with the ground that's dangerous." |
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![]() "Another said, 'It went lower and lower and in a little bit three parachutes OK, I will assume we are taking about a recent version of the F-15 and since the story discusses a pilot only with no GIB (Guy-In-Back), that eliminates the F-15E, and we are left with the F-15C. The F-15C is equipped with the McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) Advanced Concept Ejection Seat (ACES) II zero-zero seat. This seat uses an extractor chute to help deploy the drogue which slows and stabilizes the seat. Then after the pilot separates from the seat, out comes the main chute to bring the pilot down. [See: http://www.ejectionsite.com] So the extractor, drogue and main chutes may account for three chutes seen by the witness. Two problems with this explanation: 1. We don't know what mode the seat was in. In Mode 1 which cover 0 - 250 kts, the all chutes are deployed but the drogue is not inflated since the main deploys and inflates within 2 seconds (makes a groin ache thinking about it). 2. The witness rseems to say that the three chutes were small (whatever that means). While the main is not a big chute, the three chutes deployed in succession are distinctly larger than their predecessor. So yeah . . . witnesses need to be taken with a grain of salt, but this person could have seen three chutes. Take care . . . John |
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