Originally Posted by
NutLoose
I believe the Tornado command ejection was brought about during early testing of the Aircraft, if I remember rightly they were up on an Test Flight over the North Sea and an incident occurred ( birdstrike? ) disabling the front seater , the aircraft was in a shallow descent and the rear seater stuck it talking to the pilot hoping he would start to respond until at low height he was forced to bang out leaving the poor guy to his fate. The command ejection came about from that incident. Or am I getting confused?
I was thinking of a different incident NutLoose. I believe it was a LL sortie through valleys. The Nav/WSO dropped something on the floor and bent to pick it up-as he was getting up at a funny angle he saw the side of a mountain looming large-he concluded in the split second he had that the pilot had lost control and initiated a command ejection (details may not be 100% accurate, but something approximating it)?