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Occurred at Mt. Home AFB, Idaho 2003.
Pilot set the altimeter calculations for the wrong airport, which was several hundred feet ASL different. He did everything else correctly in the show but the plane was calculated to crash because of that. He had full stick deflection but the aircraft is not capable of performing enough to avoid the crash. He ejected just in time. Suffered minor injuries.


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LE BARON said:
HP-80 Victor K2-UK Airforce

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And from the sucks to be you department ......"The Victor carried a crew of five, including a pilot, copilot, two navigators, and an electronics systems officer, all in a spacious cockpit. Ejection seats were only provided for the pilot and copilot, on the basis that they would generally stay with the aircraft until the rest of the crew got out."
 
Dave91TM said:
And from the sucks to be you department ......"The Victor carried a crew of five, including a pilot, copilot, two navigators, and an electronics systems officer, all in a spacious cockpit. Ejection seats were only provided for the pilot and copilot, on the basis that they would generally stay with the aircraft until the rest of the crew got out."
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The first navigator said to the second navigator... "You wanna stay home on this trip? That pilot looks skittish!" To which the systems officer replied. "No worries, I've disable the ejection seats!"
 
Convair XF2Y-1 Sea Dart seaplane jet fighter prototype 137634 coming ashore. It is the only seaplane to have exceeded the speed of sound.
The four surviving planes were retired in 1957, but some were kept in reserve until 1962.

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