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I think it's the one of the guy ejecting tho I think the Air Canada one is fake too.

It's kinda funny, but I think I've seen every one of those pics along with the realted discussions right here on dz
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The guy ejecting is for real tho.



is it? I mean, it is a real pic of a guy ejecting, but I kinda thought the background was added, in other words, the guy wasn't that low.
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is it? I mean, it is a real pic of a guy ejecting, but I kinda thought the background was added, in other words, the guy wasn't that low.



It's from a Thunderbird's demo. The video was floating around on here for awile. The guy did a loop too low and ejected before he pancaked in.
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I'd be more worried about the spectators... Arent those seats designed for 0 velocity, 0 elevation deployment?



From the article I read some time back, he did make it. I'm not sure if they're 0/0 seats or not in the F-16, but I'd bet they are.

As for the spectators, this is why there's a rule in place that a pilot isn't allowed to vector energy towards a crowd. This happened along or next to the runway, thankfully.
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nah it's a real pic. The guy was in the corner because he screwed up the MSL/AGL thing. There's some cockpit video where you see him miss the ejection handle once before he finally gets it a split second before the plane pounds in.

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