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Mailed for "VTAILJEFF@aol.com"

Me thinks the tale about the pilot hanging his arm out the B52 window might
be a stretch. When I flew off carriers we had an A-6 in my squadron lost the
whole canopy. The pilot who happened to have his arm too close to the left
side got a pretty nasty flail injury when the slipstream tried to wrap his
elbow around the tailhook. If you think 125 KIAS is not too fast for the
human body take a look at the A-6 Bombardier/ navigator who got partially
ejected from his airplane and ended up sitting half in and half out of the
aircraft flailing all over the place-- even during the arrested landing.
In my experience in a Bonanza, losing a side window in flight was a traumatic
non-event. Traumatic from the standpoint of noise, losing stuff out the
opening (charts, plates, etc. ) Non event from the standpoint of no handling
difficulties. It was quite disturbing to lower the gear and see daylight
through the top of the wing from where the window hit the wing and perforated
the wing and flap like a shotgun blast.....Jeff Edwards


            

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