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Old 16th Aug 2008, 12:33
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Speechless Two - You are almost right except that Bush actually ejected and lived for around 24 hours; he ejected so low that he and his parachute passed through the fireball of the crashed Hunter which fused the canopy cords together before the chute was fully deployed. His arrival on terra firma was therefore such that although he survived the ejection - and in the process became the only Fleet Air Arm pilot (and probably the only pilot) to have ejected three times he subsequently died of his injuries. RIP.

Nigel Grier- Rees also ejected from a Hunter at Brawdy,having previously dead-sticked another from Lossie with a fuel problem at a disused airfield nearby during which he managed to avoid a practising learner driver adjacent to and concrete blocks scattered on the runway before tensioning the barbed wire fence at the end of the runway with his nosewheel door. No damage to man or mount.

He died whilst pruning a tree in his orchard. RIP also. A very nice guy with whom I had the pleasure to serve. Married a friend of my wife's.
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