Amazing footage. I remember seeing tv news coverage of the accident at the time. Hard to see what caused the collision from the video. What were they trying to do at the time?
Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 8:36 AM, Steve Cottrell <[email protected]> wrote: > On 15/7/18, Daniel J. Matyola, discombobulated, unleashed: > > >I participated in a couple during my active duty days. One resulted in a > >few moments of terror when one of our planes didn't make it for the > fly-by, > >but was involve in a mid-air that resulted in the loss of a radome and a > >navigation ejecting (safely except for some broken toes) over the pine > >forests of NC. The best one was wen my son was a teen-ager and we > attended > >the one at Miramar, CA back when it was the "Top Gun" Navy Base. (It is > >now the USMC's main airbase on the West Coast). I had lots of high > >performance a/c, plus two Migs; first ones I ever saw other than I on > >radar screen. > > In 1993 (ironically the one year I missed working on the show) a pair of > MIGs collided and the pilots both ejected safely. One of them landed in a > field nearby and after untethering his canopy, calmly walked up to a > bystander and bummed a cigarette, lit it and walked back to the airfield. > > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn9ZgtSph-M> > > Scroll through towards the end. > > -- > > > Cheers, > Cotty > > > ___/\__ UK Shoot / Edit and > || (O) | Live Broadcast News > ---------- <www.seeingeye.tv> > _____________________________ > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
