Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]He didn't trigger it accidentally: he just didn't want any reflections in the canopy. ;-) Beautiful plane though. There's one 'dying' next to the highway a few miles form here: a fool bought it and then let it rust. The wings dropped off recently. Sad. Op 20-jun-06, om 18:47 heeft Jim Nichols het volgende geschreven: > I just visited our local airport and heard about an incident > involving one of our local aircraft owners who performs in airshows > and other commercial flying endeavors. It seems that he was > providing the photo plane, his red Lockheed T-33, for a > photographer who was making air-to-air photos for Cessna, when the > photographer accidentally triggered the first stage of the ejection > process, blowing the canopy. Fortunately, the second stage, seat > ejection, was not initiated. > > Anyone on the LUG know any more about this? > > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/Musings/Red_Knight > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >