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mark.j(at)yakuk.com
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Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 12:47 am Post subject: bail out



In the UK there was a dead stick of a Knat, yes you read right Folland Knat!! Engine quit and pax would not eject when instructed, so pilot landed straight ahead in open field and all was well. Amazing when you consider touch down was in the region of 90kts or more. (MJ estimate)

 

As I said in my last post, 18ft / sec vertical is a darn site safer than 65kts horizontal. It was only a MIG 15, 100’s more of them why on earth try to “save” one of them. L-29 has the same seat I believe, basically a single cartridge just a bit bigger than a 12 gauge shot gun. It will throw you about 30 ft I think.

 

BTW, I have a full set of L-29 manuals, about 12 books or more I believe, all English.

 

I had heard from people that in a conversation with his Mig-15 show

      partner he always said he would rather land the plane than eject,

      while his partner maintained that he would bail out.

      

      Ejection is dangerous business, so is dead stick landing a jet. Had he

      lived, would he have been right or wrong? Its anybody's guess.

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fish(at)aviation-tech.com
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Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 6:40 am Post subject: bail out



Mark Jefferies,

Skip Holm (SR-71, USAF & Lockheed Test Pilot, Reno Air racer), also dead sticked

a Knat while he was ferrying it and lost an engine. I beleive it was last year

or the year before. Then had a second plane drop him off so he could ferry a

anouther aircraft the same day.

Fly Safe

John Fischer

Yak-52, N213YA

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In the UK there was a dead stick of a Knat, yes you read right Folland

Knat!! Engine quit and pax would not eject when instructed, so pilot landed

	


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		  straight ahead in open field and all was well. Amazing when you consider

touch down was in the region of 90kts or more. (MJ estimate)

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Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 1:30 pm Post subject: bail out



the incident in the Uk Re the GNAT, It was a friend of mine on the way to meet me at an airshow. He lost all thrust except idle, this happened as he turned downwind. He opted to stay with the jet as he was over a congested area just north of london. the landing speed was in the region of 150+ knots into a field. he survived and later flew a cessna 172 back to the show.

And Yes , we had more than a few beers later that night.

 

ger

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