Parachutes & life expectancy

On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:12:52 -0600, "Bill Daniels"
bildan@comcast-dot-net wrote:
[snip]

You could also ask anyone who has used an emergency 'chute if they'd like to
repeat the experience

Not counting ejections, of course...years ago I saw a TV documentary
of life among a carrier air group. They ran two interviews with one
pilot, one early in the deployment and one just after he'd had an
engine failure off the cat and ejected into the water.

In the first one he was all charged up, loads of gung-ho, your basic
indestructibility complex. In the second, he was wide-eyed,
off-center, and saying "I don't EVER wanna ride that seat again!"

rj