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    Quote Originally Posted by ecu1984 View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by willyworm View Post
    Lots of factors in where the canopy would land respective to where the pilot lands, primarily altitude, wind speed and direction. If pilot were high enough and the wind blew him/her far enough I can imagine they could easily be separated by more than a few miles.

    The canopies are like any object that falls off a military aircraft... collateral damage that comes along with flying planes. There's a program we have called DOPP (Dropped Object Prevention Program). We strive to prevent it but even it happens it happens. When something falls off a plane, think an external light lens, or an antenna that may happen to break off, if it causes any damage on it's descent to the earth (vast majority of the time it doesn't), our DOPP Manager responds and govt recovers the item then compensates them accordingly.

    I've never seen a canopy in person that's been blasted off a jet but I can imagine that with the blast that breaks it off from the aircraft that it's mostly intact but essential trash. I mean, at that point you likely just bought the aircraft anyway so the condition of the canopy is moot.

    Perhaps someone in North Charleston found it.

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    Another question , what happens to the seat when it ejects. Does it separate as well and fall or stay with pilot

    THought same thing , any debris from that distance could do lot of damage to what it hits

    I understand the thought process , when someone ejects plane is toast any way and seldom does anything like this happen over populated areas

    Would suck to be the ONE that got hit with something I am sure regardless of size of check
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    Canopy pops off, seat blows out with pilot it in, shortly thereafter pilot and seat separate. Only thing I'm not sure about is whether the seat itself has its own parachute but don't think it does.

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    Goose hit his head on the canopy.

    RIP Goose

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    Quote Originally Posted by willyworm View Post
    The canopies...

    Perhaps someone in North Charleston found it.
    You'd think it and the seat would be posted on Craigslist or eBay by now.

    For that matter, where's all of the personal cell phone videos of people finding the pilot, the canopy and the seat? It's a bit odd that there's no hub-bub about all of it, or has .gov blocked it all? Or am I just working on another 'conspiracy theory' for toofer?
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    Quote Originally Posted by WoodieSC View Post
    For that matter, where's all of the personal cell phone videos of people finding the pilot, the canopy and the seat? It's a bit odd that there's no hub-bub about all of it, or has .gov blocked it all? Or am I just working on another 'conspiracy theory' for toofer?
    Or trail cam pictures of the plane before / during the crash. If no pics or videos come forward after the cleanup, then Sasquatch is real.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 2thDoc View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by HT View Post
    Or trail cam pictures of the plane before / during the crash. If no pics or videos come forward after the cleanup, then Sasquatch is real.
    Great point... and, yes, Sasquatch lives!
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    There is a 1 in 100 trillion chance that a quarter million dollar two hundred pound ejection seat blew out over Charleston and didn't hit a damn vehicle driven by a total fucking idiot...

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    There is no reason to bring a completely plausible theory such as the skunk ape into this conversation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JABIII View Post
    There is a 1 in 100 trillion chance that a quarter million dollar two hundred pound ejection seat blew out over Charleston and didn't hit a damn vehicle driven by a total fucking idiot...
    Yep lol
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    Quote Originally Posted by Silentweapon338 View Post
    What happens to those canopies? I would imagine it would be with in a mile or so of the pilot. Do they completly come apart and self destruct or due they stay mostly intact until what ever damage is done by trees and or earth?

    I ask for 2 reasons A) seems like it would be a fairly deadly object falling from the sky.

    B) As crazy as it sounds I would bet if in tact the Chineses would love to get their hands on it. Why everyone else is running around looking for the airplane/debri field. Long Toa Ho is probably arguing with UPS over his over night package cost back to Beijing
    Canopy remains mostly intact. The canopy has c4 all around frame, canopy blows then within a half a second or less a “rocket” launches the pilot out. Only the butt portion of the seat is attached to the pilot. The back plate stays in the jet. Under the seat is where the pilots Stache survival stuff their weapons are attached to their body. Seen 2 ejections


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    Quote Originally Posted by JABIII View Post
    There is a 1 in 100 trillion chance that a quarter million dollar two hundred pound ejection seat blew out over Charleston and didn't hit a damn vehicle driven by a total fucking idiot...
    and if I-526 didn't get backed up for the afternoon, it didn't happen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ScoobieMcDoobie View Post
    This was hilarious. WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

    Even my wife was laughing at this one

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    The F35 helmet cost $400,000.

    I hope the pilot brought it with him


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    I get that the F35 is the best multi role fighter, but when you look at the F22 it's hard to understand why they gave up on it. It's like the F15 compared to the F16.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Catdaddy View Post
    The F35 helmet cost $400,000.

    I hope the pilot brought it with him

    If I had found the plane, I was just going to ask Timsmith to grab one of those helmets out of the shed...

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    15 pages, at least.
    hell, it could be more if we can come up with more crazy ass stories.

    and to think at first there wasnt even a plane crash.

    those crazy rich asians. I swear.
    Ugh. Stupid people piss me off.

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