Parachute into a 550mph airstream?
Good luck with that in 1945 and no ejector seat.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 10:10, 4 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

While I'm with you on the sentiment
I'm pretty sure the date's irrelevant, unless gravity, air resistance and the coefficient of restitution of the "the ground" has changed since 1945?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 10:12, Reply)

global warming innit

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 10:13, Reply)

you sir
Are forgetting the great Big G variable of October 1944... Caused by Biggles time travelling
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 10:14, Reply)

you could use your hands to slow you down and glide back down to earth
like a giant bready space shuttle
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 10:13, Reply)

Wouldn't the bread toast by air friction at that speed?

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 10:16, Reply)

it's not actually the friction that causes the build up of heat on a shuttle re-entering the atmosphere but the pressure build up

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 10:18, Reply)

As Pressure is proportional to Temperature
physics innit.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 10:21, Reply)

Either way it's still toasty

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 10:25, Reply)

I hope the pilot turns the engine off before he bails out. The cockpit is about 2 inches in front of the intake.
At least he wouldn't need to worry about a parachute landing in Central London and the ensuing lynching.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 10 Jan 2013, 10:20, Reply)

An ejector seat isn't going to stop you having your head ripped off
by the 550 mph airstream.
( Kroney, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 10:38, Reply)

True
but it might save your lower extremities from being left behind in the cockpit...
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 10:40, Reply)

Seems it is possible...but you have to be lucky
SFW, despite the title.

www.ejectionsite.com/ejectfaq.htm
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 10:44, Reply)