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" SPAAALLATT"!!
(bug to windshield @75mph)

I watched a great vid the other day... a pair of russians got a medal from Sukhoi i think, because they found out, by accident, that the ejection seats in the su-24 were zero zero capable.

hydraulic system unpowered, no pressure, elevators pitch up, co-pilot short stick goes dead against the seat.... behind the ejector seat handle. engine gets powered up, hydraulic pressure goes up, elevators move back to neutral, stick pushes forward, hooks into ejector handle, co-pilot goes bye bye through the canopy without touching a thing. the fucking cartoon the presenter did for it was hilarious.

the fix - that plane now has 'balls' polystyrene cups on a string which hold the elevators in place when its parked.

USAF gets enough funding to avoid shit like this but they prefer to spend it on cool gadgets.

Huh. Didn't know prop planes had ejection seats.

Tis but a scratch!

17 year old trainers. Most people don't even have cars that old. Yeah they get daily maintenance, but high frequency vibration induced cracking around rivet holes and metal fatigue always catch up eventually.