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RE: Questions that never get a decent answer: - 8/25/2016 9:41:55 PM

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I found an interesting article in an old issue of approach magazine about a sailor who ejected while upside down in a thunder cloud.
He spent just under an hour in free fall.

Bullshit!

Perhaps you might want to read what I actually posted before you call bullshit.

The world record holder for the highest freefall (Felix Baumgartner) spent just a little over 4 minutes in freefall from ~39k feet. This left him sixteen seconds short of the world record for freefall duration (he did next to nothing to slow his speed for most of it).So unless this guy had wings (or a wingsuit

The sailor boy who ejected from his aircraft in a thundercloud did not do it to set a record. His a/c had ceased controlled flight while in a thundercloud and he ejected.
The updrafts in the thunder cloud controlled his decent.

you must have been reading the Onion or something of the like.

Approach magazine is the official navy publication dealing with a/c incidents and accidents. Tomorrow I will go out in the barn and try to find the old issue and post it for you.

http://www.public.navy.mil/navsafecen/Pages/media/magazines/approach/index.aspx

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RE: Questions that never get a decent answer: - 8/25/2016 9:43:39 PM

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I imagine the answer to the parachute question must be D. B. Cooper.

lol

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RE: Questions that never get a decent answer: - 8/26/2016 7:58:22 AM

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Uh, when you jump from a very high altitude, you need an oxygen bottle so you can breath,

I found an interesting article in an old issue of approach magazine about a sailor who ejected while upside down in a thunder cloud.
He spent just under an hour in free fall.

Bullshit!

I found it. It is the may 1960 issue of approach.
The intro reads:

"An f8u on a two plane vfr flight from massachusetts to south carolina flamed out at 47,000 feet over n. carolina...
The pilot ejected directly over an extensive thunderhed estimated to have been 100 miles in diameter.The speed at the time of ejection was 210 kts. indicated airspeed.
His dramatic 40 minute 9 mile decent through a violent thunder storm was widlely, and somewhat inaccurately covered in the nation's press. However, because of it's great interest to approach readers, here is a more detailed account of the pilots experiences after ejection compiled from his statements the accident investigation."

The pilots description takes up two pages. If you are interested use the link I posted earlier and go to the approach archives for may 1960. It is a pretty interesting read....oh yes, that particular jarhead lived to fly another day...my bad I had forgotten that it was a jarehead airplane driver and not a squid.

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