Thank you again Timelord, so it was a straight line escape.
I probably misunderstood a bit regarding the blue steel that it would've required a pitch up to separate the bugger properly from the ac?
I realize that the tropical island part was stated in a bit tongue in cheek (and a quick glimpse at the world map confirmed that), it just caused some chuckles to read of that cunning plan presented by another ppruner years ago.
On a more light note this story really made me laugh out loud (my bolding on the story)
Originally Posted by
threeputt
All this talk of jettisoning canopies and stuff brought to mind Waddo in the mid 70's. Sat in the 50 Sqn crewroom probably "syphing on somebodies donk" when loud explosion type noise was heard from the direction of the threshold of RW 21. Flt Cdr Air's (Sqn Ldr John P******x) No 1 and 2 engines had just suffered catastrophic failure on run up to brakes off. Sh*t and flames every where. This has clearly got everyones attention, not to mention Fg Off Geoff D****n, the screen Nav Rad, who decided that this was definatley not for him and so he blew open the crew door and climbed out with the intention of "f*****g off in fine pitch" up wind of the pretty impressive conflagration which was rapidly getting more intense by the second. Only one small problem however, which was that he had forgotten to disconnect his umbilical cord (imbicile cord in his case) and so there is this hillarious picture of Geoff running into wind, pulling the largest parachute you have ever seen.
His legs seemed to be doing 90kts IAS, body 1kt groundspeed ! Funniest thing I have ever seen! 
Anyone know where the little wart is these days?
And 3 Putts again!
All in all, as stated, this thread is absolute gold, both in stories and knowledge shared by the ones in the know. It has existed for 18 years (who would've imagined it at the time?), but I hope it survives at least another 18 years for the next gen also to read, learn and laugh.
p.s. thank you for the mods for not deleting this over the XL390 dispute.
