Originally Posted by
Bob Viking
I’ve just watched a slightly better quality video of the event and you will see just as he is jettisoning he appears to be approaching the wrong side of the drag curve. Quite a high sink rate with the nose still pointing up.
I’d say he wouldn’t want to have left it much longer whichever option he’d taken.
Good work.
BV
Yes that was actually quite a close call, as you said, the better quality video shows the sink rate seen against the bottom of screen .
Notice also the grey smoke alongside the black from fuel....