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2019-03-10 Africa North

Exercise Flintlock Follies - How NOT to exit the ramp (video)

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-03-10 01:37|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Putting down the coffee. Still shaking head. Thanks B. Good one.

Posted by Woodrow 2019-03-10 08:19|| 2019-03-10 08:19|| Front Page Top

#2 I've never quite mastered the thought that it's a good idea to jump out of a perfectly fine airplane.

Posted by AlanC 2019-03-10 09:08|| 2019-03-10 09:08|| Front Page Top

#3 I remember my father saying that with something like a Piper Cub you could trim it up to land slower than a typical parachute in the 1940's and 1950's. Now day's military aircraft will fall out of the sky if the computer poops thus more and more development of zero-zero ejection for the crew.

Posted by Snavimble Bucket1794 2019-03-10 13:37|| 2019-03-10 13:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Kinda evident they missed the sandpit tower training.

Posted by Alistaire Bourbon1022 2019-03-10 20:55|| 2019-03-10 20:55|| Front Page Top

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