I was thinking, a C-18 would be a cargo plane not a fighter, but it was a CF-18, which makes more sense. Boeing C-137 Stratoliner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia {And someone has fixed it, so never mind}
couple more degrees inverted and he'd have ejected right into the ground....lucky that. Also lucky the chute didn't ignite. Close close call there.
Engine failure. You seen it Yaw out a bit as it fails. Glad he's doing ok and was able to eject. Look at the nozzle settings on the engine. One's fully open, Other is closed.
If you look at the video at 1:00 mark (1:50 Time at the right of the seek bar) you can see one of the engine is puffing out black smoke then a few seconds later the jet veer off to the right. That's when he ejected.
A pilot that DID go past the envelope The USAF had a pilot in the 90's that was pushing boundaries on B52's....did stuff like have rivets pop off the plane. An officer in vain appealed that this hotdoger be told to stop. In what was to have been the final airshow before they got desk jobs, the protesting officer chose bravely to be the co-pilot to hopefully avoid anything going wrong....tragically there was no time as Lt Col Bud Holland did a deep bank going too slow, taking half a million pounds, and three crewmember down in a fireball. The USAF no longer allows that behavior. 1994 Fairchild Air Force Base B-52 crash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Re: A pilot that DID go past the envelope My recollection of regional news was that such behavior was not 'allowed' then either, which is why so many AF careers ended with the investigation. But this is not reflected in the Wikipedia article. Other than the actual crash video, my next strongest memory of this event was news interview footage of [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Widnall"]Sheila Widnall[/ame] stating emphatically that these aircraft are never banked more the 30 degrees, punctuated with footage of previous Bud Holland airshow stunts banking them at 85-95 degrees.
