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Thanks be to God
33 years ago at about 13:00 Greenland Standard Time , with good
training, excellent equipment and the Grace of God, I ejected over Sonderstrom Greenland, in the middle of a snow storm and survived, This day after Pearl Harbor Day, I celebrate, with my troops, this episode in time. Big John |
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"Big John" wrote in message ... 33 years ago at about 13:00 Greenland Standard Time , with good training, excellent equipment and the Grace of God, I ejected over Sonderstrom Greenland, in the middle of a snow storm and survived, This day after Pearl Harbor Day, I celebrate, with my troops, this episode in time. Big John Well don't leave us hanging here, Big John - tell us the story! ;-) cheers...pix |
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33 years ago at about 13:00 Greenland Standard Time , with good
training, excellent equipment and the Grace of God, I ejected over Sonderstrom Greenland, in the middle of a snow storm and survived, How about some details? vince norris |
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Same he Ejected and excellent equipment usually don't
go in the same sentence. Greenland is ice, Iceland is green. Do you walk to school, or carry your lunch? Have a great one! Bush On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 11:37:28 -0600, Big John wrote: 33 years ago at about 13:00 Greenland Standard Time , with good training, excellent equipment and the Grace of God, I ejected over Sonderstrom Greenland, in the middle of a snow storm and survived, This day after Pearl Harbor Day, I celebrate, with my troops, this episode in time. Big John |
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Same he Ejected and excellent equipment usually don't
go in the same sentence. Shot down, maybe? |
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All right you'se guys. Told the whole story last year but a short
version. Ferrying three T-33's out of over haul to Iceland and going to bring the war weary birds back. Launched, CAVU and forecast and to remain, from Goose Bay along with 9 F-5's going to Jordan. En route, Wx at Sonderstrom went to 1K and three miles in snow. F-5's were faster and passed us and started landing (GCA) before us. We arrived at Sonderstrom and listened to the problems the F-5's were having while circuling for an hour. Finally given clearance to make an approach to GCA for landing. Gave us a 360 to burn off altitude and ran us behind a mountain and we lost radio contact. I climbed a little and went to Guard and got contact and we were on base leg and they forgot I was on Guard and let us over shoot final talking on descrete freq not Guard. Sent us around with 12 gallons on totalizer. Pulled up and punched. Civilian chopper picked three of us up and 4th landed outside their local TV station and walked in on camera :O) Lots of errata but that is basic story. Monday morning quarter back. If I had declared emergency fuel 10-15 minutes earlier they might have lost one or two F-5's but my three birds would have landed ok. Isn't hindsight wonderful. Big John Msc The F-5's had a price tag of over a million dollars ea. The T-33's were on the books at $65K ea. On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 11:37:28 -0600, Big John wrote: 33 years ago at about 13:00 Greenland Standard Time , with good training, excellent equipment and the Grace of God, I ejected over Sonderstrom Greenland, in the middle of a snow storm and survived, This day after Pearl Harbor Day, I celebrate, with my troops, this episode in time. Big John |
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Big John,
I join you in your celebration of survival and tip one for you. However, I wonder what God or Allah or Odin or Zeus has to do with it. If God allowed your airplane to go south on you and the weather to be awful, why would you give Him or Her credit for your survival. After all, didn't He or She screw you to start with? Again, congratulations on surviving a horrible experience and using your skill, experience, judgment and knolwedge in selecting when and where to leave the aircraft. Let's give credit where it's due. You just plain did it right. All the best, Rick Big John wrote in message . .. 33 years ago at about 13:00 Greenland Standard Time , with good training, excellent equipment and the Grace of God, I ejected over Sonderstrom Greenland, in the middle of a snow storm and survived, This day after Pearl Harbor Day, I celebrate, with my troops, this episode in time. Big John |
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On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 11:37:28 -0600, Big John
wrote: 33 years ago at about 13:00 Greenland Standard Time , with good training, excellent equipment and the Grace of God, I ejected over Sonderstrom Greenland, in the middle of a snow storm and survived, This day after Pearl Harbor Day, I celebrate, with my troops, this episode in time. Big John Big John, You have some amazing stories, do you post to other places I could follow, write a book... You and the other fantastic posters are the reason I am spending too much/not enough time on the computer instead of venturing outside. Some day we will be simulated to cyborgs and not miss a thing except simple living? Best wishes for the holidays Pat Thronson |
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Pat
I basically just post to rah and rap. I liken the give and take to what we called "Hanger Flying" in the old days. You heard stories of what happened, good and bad, which helped to build your body of knowledge. I have been building my family history (genealogy) for many years and kick myself that I didn't start earlier and talk to the old ones who passed away before I got into the business. On my 'War Stories', some are just stories and others hold good basic information that pilots can use in their flying. Hope that us old timers can pass some of the information we learned the hard way to the current generations. In some of the subsequent posts following my 'story' my use of "Grace of God" seems to start being taken to task. I could have use the word "luck" which can extrapolate directly into 'Grace of God' if anyone has heart burn about thanking my deity. Bottom line. Made it and glad to be here today with all you good (and bad) folks. G 16 days and counting............ Big John On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 13:49:56 GMT, "Pat Thronson" wrote: On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 11:37:28 -0600, Big John wrote: 33 years ago at about 13:00 Greenland Standard Time , with good training, excellent equipment and the Grace of God, I ejected over Sonderstrom Greenland, in the middle of a snow storm and survived, This day after Pearl Harbor Day, I celebrate, with my troops, this episode in time. Big John Big John, You have some amazing stories, do you post to other places I could follow, write a book... You and the other fantastic posters are the reason I am spending too much/not enough time on the computer instead of venturing outside. Some day we will be simulated to cyborgs and not miss a thing except simple living? Best wishes for the holidays Pat Thronson |
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