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Old 16th Jun 2008, 11:25
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I have a recollection of an Intruder that had a seat malfunction and half ejected the Nav (or WSO or whatever they call them). Fired the drogue throught the canopy whicheh pulled the seat part way up the rail or similar, leaving the poor bloke stuck out in the airflow

(edit: heres a link, ain't google a wonderful thing.

Along the lines of Black and Yellars F4 story, I also seem to recall, not an ejection but an abandonemnt, during the days of the Bulldogs nasty string of spinning incidents / accidents. IIRC the aircraft would not recover, QFI called for abandonment, but as the canopy and the stude parted company the spin characteristics changed allowing the QFI to recover it. Or something like that.

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