[UA] Archetype evolution
Spainhour, Richard CPT
spainhor at ftknox16cav-emh12.army.mil
Wed Feb 3 12:26:10 PST 1999
(SNIP)
> > Speaking as one who has parachuted out of a _jet_ not once, not twice,
> but
> > THREE times (and, presumably, lived), let me tell you that the plane's
> > propulsion system doesn't equate to jumper survival. What matters is
> how
> > fast the damn thing was flying when he bailed, not whether it had
> turbofan,
> > turboprop, reciprocating prop, or wind up the rubber band and let it go
> > engines.
>
> I apologize for not stating jets do not equal
> instant death.
>
> From all reliable sources, including the police
> reports of the time, it was going very fast.
>
> And flying very, very high.
>
Ahhhh...makes sense. :)
--Rich
>
> --
> Michael Daisey
> ----
> "It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the
> oath." Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek dramatist. Fragments, no. 385.
>
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