Some peculiar facts
(turn off your ambient light to enhance viewing)
 

Men and machines at the edge of death

MiG 29 demo pilot ejects after a mid air collision during an air show
 
 

Gilles Villenevue
 
 

MiG 29 test pilot ejects border line at Le Bourget while flying nose straight down, after trying to recovery from right engine failure
during a low speed/high alpha pass
 
 

F-16 Thunderbird pilot ejects 0.8 sec before impacting the ground, exiting from a 5/8 loop performed with wrong altimeter setting
 
 


 
Su-30 test pilot Vyacheslav Averyanov and navigator do not eject and stay with the aircraft while impacting the ground at Le Bourget, they will eject during the climb out.

The impact is the result of a recovery from insufficient height out of a flat spin, apparently performed voluntarially by the pilot on an extra 360° than scheduled.

These shots give the impression of a lined up approach ending a bit on the ground. The actual video footage is terrific, as the a/c is massively flat spinning earthbound, picked out from the manouver and lined up with the runway in matter of instants

Facts by themselves
 

Graf Zeppelin over the Constance lake
 
 

Anomalous single ocean wave passes over an Esso supertanker

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