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  • Very inspirational video. My condolences to the family of WSO Dennis.

  • Well Done Sir.

    R.I.P. WSO Dennis

  • Damn hes one tough motherfucker

  • He doesn't look very professional...not wearing a shirt under his flight suit, all that nasty chest hair hanging all out

  • Fucking beast/ epic

  • so you broke 2 legs, and a arm, and completely fucked up the rest of your body

    yet you look completely normal now and can walk just fine, yeah right...

  • @123qwerty ru4real?

  • @123qwerty

    You're an idiot and know nothing about it!

    What do you think that he's lying or something? Why would he do that? The human body has a tremendous capability of recovery!

    Respect to this man and he's WSO!

    R.I.P Dennis!

  • so, America is ready to intervene and democratize communist cuba. Cuba is a narco state and is part of axis of evil. Cubans hate America and Mexico's capitalism and democracy.

  • a little bit of exaggeration there about his veins and arteries the only thing holding his legs.

  • that super bad. but he recovered, thats good

  • My bad... SR71's were speculated to be able to reach speeds above Mach 3 though

  • In HQ, investigators will find the problem from communication to loss of hydraulics and irreversible control surfaces. If fault lies in the pilot, most probably he will not be able to fly anymore. If it is not his fault, he can choose to carry on or halt

  • I am a big pussy!

  • You think THIS is bad? Try ejecting from an SR-71 at Mach 6..... its happened before

  • @edude625 you mean mach 3 dumb ass because that is its top speed

  • @edude625 SR's didn't go mach 6.....

  • @edude625

    No it didn't.

    1) The SR-71 does not go Mach 6 it has a maximum speed of Mach 3.3

    (source: Wikipedia)

    2) Every survived Ejection from the A-12 and SR-71 was at subsonic speeds.

    (source: Project Get Out and Walk)

    I found out all this in 3 minutes of simple research. You should try doing some simple research before posting.

  • @RasterGraph SR-71's actual speed is classified so your "research" is flawed.

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  • My utmost respect for you and most sincere compassion for the loss of your brother Pilot.

  • That guy is a fuckin trooper, I don't care what anyone says

  • Is he still flying?

    I always thought that if a pilot ejects it's over for his career because of the trauma he suffers...just like this guy described.

  • @st3reo23 3 time allowence for number of ejects becasue of spinal compression

  • @st3reo23 pilots can eject 3 times before there freer is over.

  • HELLA RESPECT!!!

  • What I find amazing about this video, isn't the amazing capabilities of the F15, nor the Eject seat it...

    its the amazing ability of the human body to take HUGE level's of punishment and still survive.

  • 699backstab

    Oh by the way, I'm looking foward to the day you and others like you meet GOD. I don't think you'll be spouting your usual garbage...

  • 699backstab

    WHERE WAS GOD WHEN YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN ABORTED? He was allowing you to be born and not stepping in so that the rest of us would know what the term "WASTE OF HUMAN FLESH" means.

  • I don't get it.Isn't the seat suppose to "protect you from damage when you eject??

    Either way what went wrong with he's ejection,since he got so badly injured?

  • @leiefilm well i think you're not suposed to eject at over the speed of sound..

  • @enjoythesummer92 Oh okay maybe your on to something there.

  • @leiefilm Did you watch the video?

  • @foxtrot789 yupp

  • Great video :( Thanks for uploading :) R.I.P

  • STARTED PRAYING STARTED PRAYING WHAT THE FUCK IS GOD? WHERE WAS GOD IN THE TURN THAT LEAD UP TO THE DISORIENTATION. WHERE WAS GOD WHEN BILLY WANTED A NEW BIKE WHERE WAS GOD WHEN A BLACK CHILD IN AFRICA JUST WANTS TO EAT. WELL. GOD FUCKING BUSY RAPING AND MURDERING AND LYING AN STEALING AND WARING AND HE CANT MAKE IT TO YOUR LITTLE DINGY CONFAB. NEXT TIME SCAN THE FUCKING INSTRUMENTS TOPGUN AND MAYBE SNAP THE THROTTLES TO IDLE. GOD. WHAT A JOKE. XD

  • @699backstab do a favor for the human race and go kill yourself.

  • I am a retired Navy Parachute Rigger and a Civilian military Contractor with 35 years experience....until I heard this I would have not believed ejection at mach was even remotely survivable...he beat the odds of about a gazillion to one

  • That's a real man

  • This guy is a bad-ass. Salute him!

  • amazing hes still alive and survived this.

  • RESPECT !!!

  • well at least he survived... when the blue angel pilot ejected at super sonic speeds did he eject at a faster speed then this pilot?

  • F-15 Ejaculation at Supersonic Speed

  • real top gun

  • this is why canopy ejection technology should be implemented in modern jet fighters. as the speed of the plane increases, the higher the probability of ejection at high speeds, therefore if the entire cockpit ejects with them it will save their bodies from damage(and in this instance death).

  • Thats amazing

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  • Damn what an ordeal. I'm glad that guy survived but I'm sorry he suffered so.

  • Rest in Peace

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  • MANLY TEARS!!!! thats right bitches

  • @routhoula GOD DAMN FRUITBOWL BRONY! D:<

  • That's a desperate situation. Glad at least of them survived.

  • Wow. Incredible.

  • Аае стига - заедно се бихте против хитлер , сега не се познавате.

  • Amazing. Thanks for posting.

  • he has the romanian flag on his chest ! :P

  • @zorilaz Not Romanian, that's his Air Combat Command emblem.

  • incrdible!

  • real man!!

  • LARGE balls of titanium.

  • Do ya reckon it would be safer to make the seats turn around backwards before leaving the plane?

  • @charliethetricorn naww would take too much time. microseconds could be the difference between life and death when ejecting. The Russians came up with a system a long time ago, a thick metal plate raises from the seat from between the legs it covers the rib cage and face to block the initial blast to the body when just coming out of the aircraft. Im shocked the U.S or other nations did not make something similar?

  • @charliethetricorn i double checked it the plate does not cover face, its just the chest, search this on youtube. "K 36D Operation"

  • @charliethetricorn

    i see your point but too much time would be wasted. those seats are designed to eject yesterday.

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  • Man....

  • Your a boss. Noodle sounds odd, but your a legit boss.

  • Technically the only thing stopping you from ejecting like that is the negative air pressure and crushing force caused by the supersonic craft going near vertical. With this said if you were just going mach .99 you would be perfectly fine. But at this speed...you every organ would be in intense pain for a split second before exploding.

  • is it possible to eject at mach 3 at the altitude between 100000 to 120000 feet?

  • @tibchy144 100 thousand feet? I think you're thinking just a little too high mate, but yes it probably would (in theory) because the air would be so thin that even though you were travelling so fast there wouldn't be (or shouldn't be) enough air resistance to cause sireous damege.

    But planes don't fly that high. =)

  • @SgtShnackendale Thx for your answer. Maybe i did exaggerate..I'm asking because until 2006 there were commercial flights with Mig-25 available. During cold months of the year, the plane was able to climb to an altitude of 100.000+ feet (20 miles+, 32 km+) in zoom climb (not sustained flight) and reach mach 2.6 at descent.. Mig 25 Ye-155 still holds an absolute jet plane altitude record of 123520 feet from 1977.

  • @tibchy144 Jesus man, I thought the highest a plane could reach was about 70-80 thousand feet, thats pretty insane.

  • @tibchy144 the questions not can you eject but weather you will survive it.

  • stay strong

  • @Winchesterdelta1 are you a Tornado F3 pilot by anychance?

  • @winchesterdelta1 were you a tornado F3 pilot by anychance?

  • Makes you appreciate that Flight Suit huh...

  • and he's still a pilot?

    still the tests to become one in the military are so hard that when you have even a slight allergy for something you don't get allowed

  • @ikkeennigij121 thats why you dont say you have allergies, only seasonal stuffiness

  • @gypsykingg but even when you say you don"t they can find out can't they?

    trough tests by putting something on your skin and then watch how you react?

    or am I wrong?

  • he cried..he cried..

  • @TheCorbuzier you´re gay.. you´re gay

  • @oberchobo i'm already a woman..

  • @TheCorbuzier Cuntlicking? Then u are gay.....

  • whats the object coming loose in the cockpit at 1:35?

  • @TheBoBepisodes NVM, i watched the video again and noticed it detaching it from his helmet, I assume its his night vision goggles

  • @TheBoBepisodes that is most likely stock ejection seat test footage and not from his specific ejection. It is very rare to have a camera set up like that in the cockpit.

  • From what he says he got vertigo... Now that is hard to recover from and have even claimed airliners.

    One 747 were put through breakneck manouvers and lost parts of its tail plus rivets all over and landing gear doors as they tried to recover.

    And it is all related to that your instruments say the ground is the opposite way, but your body tells you a different story, it is hard to ignore your body and follow the instruments, even if thats what the training says.

  • Man, this is very very very serious.

  • I'm amazed that he didn't bleed to death in the 4 hour wait for rescue....internally or externally.

  • i live in fucking goldsboro.....................­. 5 mins away from seymore johnson AFB i just went to airshow sunday

  • His navigator didnt survive, he knows he shouldnt have lived. How would you feel being in his situation?

  • simor johnson's air field - 0:37

    its like simor butts :P

  • He went into a stall right?

    Well on HAWX, it tells what you should do is Nose Up and Throttle Pushed all the way....of course the F-15 can't recover from a stall as good as a an F-22 or whatever but is that necessarily the only way to do recover from a stall? I mean, I'm basing my information on a video game... lol

  • @omgwtfbbq6666 HAWX isn't a simulation, a spin stall disorients you, and this guy was losing altitude at an alarming rate, he barely had time to react, all he really could do is pull the ejection handle.

  • @RainbowManification yeah true

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  • @omgwtfbbq6666 For stall recovery you want to regain airspeed (with minimum altitude loss). Normally you'd pitch down and apply full power. The only reason a military jet would not have to pitch down is because of the pure power available form the engines which would just accelerate it forward. However, I'm still wary to think a nose-up attitude would be their published stall recovery procedure. Also the F-15 probably recovers better than an F-22 because it is more stable, relatively speaking.

  • @SteveWMU You never ever want to apply full power when in a stall . Just put the nose down.. apply minimum throttle and use your rudders in the opposite direction. If you apply full power you will kick the ass of your aircraft from underneath you resulting in a flat spin.

  • @WinchesterDelta1 depends on the aircraft.. anybody asking this question has clearly never flown or they've just started in which case they will be taught to apply full power as they nose down. In most training single engine prop aircraft this is how you recover from the stall. Correct me if i'm wrong..

  • @MrJoecray I am not talking about training single engine prop aircraft. I was talking about jets.

  • @SteveWMU nose up? who's crazy idea was that? it makes no sense at all? can you imagine turning finals, stalling, and then having to nose up as you apply power to recover? that would be so un-natural. not that anybody should be in a siituation were they end up stalling on finals. just an example.

  • @SteveWMU whaaat Nose UP????... no way. Thats the last thing you want to do in a fighter jet. It is nose DOWN minimum power. Use rudders to correct. And when gaining airspeed again yo can apply more power to the engines. If you apply full power right away you will spin out of control.

  • @omgwtfbbq6666 Well. A stall occurs when airflow over the wings is disrupted to the point where they can't sustain lift, and usually happens at low speeds (or high speed, high angle of attack.) The correct recovery for a stall is nose down and throttle up, in order to increase airspeed and provide more lift. I would call HAWX more of an arcade jet game than a simulator. Unfortunately good sims are rare nowadays :(

  • @omgwtfbbq6666 Well. A stall occurs when airflow over the wings is disrupted to the point where they can't sustain lift, and usually happens at low speeds (or high speed, high angle of attack.) The correct recovery for a stall is nose down and throttle up, in order to increase airspeed and provide more lift. In this case he had tons of speed so it was probably mechanical failure. I would call HAWX more of an arcade jet game than a simulator. Unfortunately good sims are rare nowadays :(

  • @beelzbub True, I decided to buy hawx and it was NOTHING like a simulator.

  • That is what we call in the military, "Supersonic Sexhair."

  • ...I salute this man.

  • Wow..

  • This is so unbelievable that even if I saw it happen it would be hard to accept. I was in a severe rock climbing accident and was crushed by a boulder and on the ground for 45min, and then another 45min without pain meds. My lower leg exploded, and it was a miserable experience. But this guy, he had both legs hamburgered and lay in a life raft for 4 hours--I can't even imagine his pain, and I've been there, right on the edge of death.

  • @naval8viator damn for real that rock climbing accident was on the news?

  • @Killamatrix243 Unless they did some brief report, I'm pretty sure it wasn't on the news. I was hurt in a remote location of New Mexico about 1 1/2 years ago, and I don't think any of the news stations knew about it.

  • @naval8viator so did you lose your legs? did they save them?!

  • @Killamatrix243 My lower right leg was the only affected area. I was given about a 30% chance to keep it, but thanks be to God I am walking on it and rehabing better than the doctors imagined. I still have a ways to go before I can run again, but I am making steady progress.

  • @naval8viator Respect... God bless you, glad to hear you're making progress :)

  • I'm sorry...I have to say this

    ...See more Johnson...

    Seymore Johnson.

  • another crazy thing is that his parachute didn't snap when opening at this speed...

  • WTF?! 3 dislikes! Get some respect guys.

  • @jonagikster

    Not all dead people deserve some respect. They died while doing their job. What about other guys beeing killed in their job? Is dying as a pilot cooler than on other job?

    Think of it you mainstream monkey!

  • @TheCabal You're pathetic.

  • @TheCabal Every dead person deserves some respect except people who die for a bad cause (Terrorist), but after seeing what you typed i don't think anyone is going to respect u when ur dead.

  • @jonagikster i thik they are dislikes for the fact the incident happend to them

  • @jonagikster who fucking cares about likes/dislikes

  • so does this guy still have a flying career. he is standing there in a flight suit. as much damage as he took getting out i'm not sure that the air force would bring him back to flight status.

  • @drod103164 He did indeed make it back into the cockpit. I found his story in depth at "The Ejection Site." From the main page, select "Aircrew Stories" on the left, then scroll to "Back in the Saddle Again." It's a hell of a story for sure -- plenty of details on the accident and Udell's convalescence.

    Also: can't comment on the guy's balls, but he did end up with a couple titanium rods in his knee . . .

  • @AkAlpinista Yes he did I was a maintainer in the 391st Fighter Squadron at Mountain Home AFB. I launched him out numerous times. Hell of a pilot with balls of steel to get back in that cockpit! 

  • You are fucking dumb. It wasnt the ejection seat that went bad. Nothing went bad at all. Its just the fact that they ejected at those speeds

  • immense

  • 2 People ejected at speed of light!

  • When people are in serious trouble they know where to turn, sometimes humans think they can do without God and some claim they don't believe he exist, but when they need Him He's still there.

  • @adob193

    bullshit. haha. bull fucking shit. i love how when bad things happen, it's never gods fault, but soon as something good happens, it's because of god. haha fucking stupid.

  • damn... chuck norris would be proud...

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  • R.I.P navigator

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  • why did they both lose control??

  • Wow that got to me.

  • I admire their dedication to duty of pilots no matter on which air force they serve

  • The PIlot made the right decision under tough a situation, I am proud of our Avaitors!

  • I wonder if Russian ejection seats are better at this sort of thing, seeing as pilots of Russian hardware do it quiet often.

  • @1st503rdSGT

    It seems so, from several sources (I don't quite know the reliability though) there are claims about Russian ejection systems being better. One of the quotes: "In total, more than 12,000 K-36 ejection seats have been produced to date and no less than 97% of the airmen who have used them in an emergency have been able to continue their flying careers-the highest percentage in the aviation world."

  • @1st503rdSGT

    There is also a claim: "Because it [K-36 ejection seat] is better then the Martin Baker seat, especialy at high speeds, above mach one. They frequently show that on airshows :P"

  • @SukhoiSu47 Several years ago, it seems as though I read an article in aviation week about the possibility of the USAF buying the Russian seats for our fighters. I guess there was an ego problem or maybe there was too much modification involved. Either way, it seems that the Russian seats are better.

  • @1st503rdSGT Makes sense, they need them. Their jets are so much worse!

  • @1st503rdSGT All our seats are made by Martin-Baker in the UK, I think.

  • True...the hazourds of fighter-flying. Respect 2 all men who fly these high-performance machines...

  • its not a "two seat f15". it's an F15E strike eagle, which has two seats.

  • R.I.P navigator, Dennis White.

  • Sad when we lose a team member. I live on Seymour Johnson AFB and last July we lost a pilot and a WSO (weapon system officer, back seat guy) in Afghanistan in an accident and it's really really difficult to bare. I couldn't sleep for a couple nights because I kept thinkin what his wingman or his crewchief back at Bagram AB were going through knowing that they launched 2 jet's and only one returned.

  • So he lost control due to vertigo?

    ...sounds like complete pilot error...

  • @MasonPilot06 Was it 'vertigo' or just a combination of factors (mechanical AND human) that caused it? Whatever, listen to the man talk and you can see he doesn't think it was a lot of fun.......

  • @MasonPilot06 Where did it say anything about him losing control because of vertigo?

  • Just to survive an ejection over 400knts, is amazing. the will to survive for his family and see them again. You can tell by his speech he is thankfully to God, for keeping him alive.

    Sorry for his RIO's family, and their lose.

  • Respect!!

  • this guy's got balls of solid titanium!!!

  • @urrybr Where can i find this show? do u know?

  • @urrybr and they are 5 feet in diameter!!

  • gotta love the first person graphic descriptions!!

  • JESUS CHRIST!!!

    What a brave guy... RIP to his navigator.

  • God bless Egress.

  • My condolances on your rio, Captain... Every day after this is a gift, I salute you sir. take care, and best wishes to you and your family.

  • this is so sad :(

  • Twice in my life, during over 8 years of illness, I was in the emergency room, knowing, I thougt at that time, that I would die. I was in terrbile pain. It is a very empty feeling, like not having done enough in your life.

    I know how he felt.

    But then: Mark 11:24

    No fear. Everything else is a lie.

  • I would be so disoriented

  • Great life experience. His noise became toneless