Later, when someone asked him when he made the decision to eject, he said, " about 10years ago
I'll go along with that. After years of reading accident reports from around the world where high speed aborts for whatever reason on limiting length runways often ended in grief off the end, I made up my mind that, unless absolutely sure the aircraft would not fly, then from 15 knots
below V1 I was going to continue the take off and sort the problem in the air. Might have been procedurally illegal but that's the way I saw it. Still do, too. No further correspondence entered into
