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Dude almost incinerated in F18 crash

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Pilot Capt. Brian Bews ejects as his a CF-18 fighter jet plummets to the ground during a practice flight at the Lethbridge County Airport on Friday, July 23 for the weekend airshow in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. "He is alive and we believe right now that his injuries are non-life-threatening," Canadian Forces Capt. Nicole Meszaros told CBC News.

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WOW! That is one lucky pilot!! He was really close to the ground. I really like going to Air Shows.

I love airshows too. (Overseas they are called Tattoos, not really sure why.) A lot of pilots have been killed punching out too close to the ground. Probably every pilot feels that he can save his aircraft.

Richard "Dick" Bong (America's highest Ace during WWII.) dies this way. He was testing a P-80 Shooting Star, the US first fighter jet, when not long after takeoff, the jet lost engine power and the plane crashed. He didn't have enough height to bail out. (Probably not enough time either.)

The Royal International Air Tattoo is the world's largest military air show, held annually over the third weekend in July, usually at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom in support of The Royal Air Force Charitable Trust...

The "standard" ejection system operates in two stages. First, the entire canopy or hatch above the aviator is opened or jettisoned, and the seat and occupant are launched through the opening. In most earlier aircraft this required two separate actions by the aviator, while later egress system designs, such as the Advanced Concept Ejection Seat model 2 (ACES II), perform both functions as a single action.

The ACES II ejection seat is used in most American-built fighters. This is probably what he had.

I bet he wishes he had:

Zero-zero ejection seat

A zero-zero ejection seat is designed to safely extract upward and land its occupant from a grounded stationary position (i.e., zero altitude Altitude

The zero-zero capability was developed to help aircrews escape upward from unrecoverable emergency situations during low-altitude and/or low-speed flight, as well as ground mishaps. Before this capability, ejections had to be performed at minimum altitudes and airspeeds.

Zero-zero technology uses a small explosive charge to open the parachute Parachute canopy quickly and small rockets to propel the seat upward to an adequate altitude for a successful parachute descent, so that reliance on airspeed and altitude is no longer required for proper deployment of the parachute.

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