Thunderbird Pilot Punches Out - Just in time

[oldmachguy]

Apologies if this is a repost, but it's pretty stout.

Photo and video of a Thunderbird pilot who punched out just in time.

http://shock.military.com/Shock/videos.do?displayContent=159951&page=9

According to the video, he had miscalculated the altitude for the maneuver, which cost him his Thunderbird career - and almost his life.

 

[black Robra]

holy! thats crazy!

 

[PowerWheels]

oops!

 

[94_Vert]

crazy...math mistake causes 20mil loss

 

[motoman991]

When the pilot's name was said I always shit myself. We have the same name!

 

[sunburned]

crazy...math mistake causes 20mil loss

Still better than NASA forgetting to convert from standard to metric units and losing a multi-billion dollar mars rover in space.