Holy crap.

[theweaselking]

This is RCAF Captain Brian Bews, ejecting from a stricken CF-18.



And this? THIS is where his CF-18 was when he ejected:

Comments

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

Those zero-zero ejection seats were a good investment. Now I want one for my car.

[missysedai.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow.

[dreamshade.livejournal.com]

Good to hear dude survived it.

[ladyfox7oaks.livejournal.com]

Holy....!!! (O_O)

And then dragged by his chute. Great. Road-rash from H*LL...

[detritus.livejournal.com]

Much better than immolation tho.

[rdmasters.livejournal.com]

I know exactly how the photographer feels, after my experience in April.

[almostwitty]

May I ask what happened in April?

[rdmasters.livejournal.com]

This happened http://rdmasters.livejournal.com/17131.html

and this http://rdmasters.livejournal.com/17153.html is what I was doing at the time.

It was, as you can imagine, a bit of a shock.

[graethorne.livejournal.com]

"Terrain following" is a figure of speech, not to be taken literally?

Holy Flaming Pikachu Shit...

[fridgepunk.livejournal.com]

First his plane goes out of control, then flames shoot out of his arse, then a passing jellyfish captures him in mid-air!

This is why I don't do mondays.

[strawberryfrog.livejournal.com]

Here are more pictures of this (http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/07/23/4739027-pilot-ejects-an-instant-before-fighterjet-crashes), including the fiery ball of flame that followed immediately after.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

The filename of the second link packs all the "O.O" in neatly:

"Canadian-Airforce-pilot-ejects-fighter-jet-moments-crashes-ball-flame.html"

But. Dude.