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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Matt1221b on October 22, 2002, 02:50:33 PM
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hey i just heard the funniest thing. is not a good thing i feel bad for the guy but its human nature to laugh...
well my grandpa told me this story that they were in the RAF and were flying some hurricans at a high altitude... they got some fighters a couple of 109s and they got a little damage, about halfway throught the dogfight my grandpas friends plane got hit and the oils started a fire....well he had to eject right then and there....and my grandpa finish with the last 109 there were only about 2 or 3 against 2 hurricans on a routine flight....my grandpa later found out that the guy died of starvation from waiting so long while he went to the ground...he was so afraid of jumping out of a plane that he had to pull his chute cause we was wicked scared... so ya i thought it was funny but i do feel bad for the guy
:D :(
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The human body can go without food for 70 days, without water for 3 days.
You telling me he opened his chute SO high it took him more than 3 days to fall?
Sorry, I dont believe it.
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Originally posted by OIO
The human body can go without food for 70 days, without water for 3 days.
You telling me he opened his chute SO high it took him more than 3 days to fall?
Sorry, I dont believe it.
Well maybe it was really really really windy? :eek:
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what does that have to do with it
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sorry dude, I read that paragraph three times and I still don't have a clue what you're talking about.
Your grandpa's friend DIED from starvation after he bailed from his plane? How???
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My guess is oxygen starvation. Yeah, suffocation is a real funny thing.
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ya he probably did die from oxygen starvation but my grandpa wasnt really sure but when the doctors told him what he died from they said dehidration so i dunno:confused:
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ahhh.. o2 starvation. Didnt think of that one. Possible, but heck, how high could a spitfire get in those days anyway? Even a chute can fall mighty fast.
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it was about bomber high they were intercepting 2 he 111s that were straggaling after the short bomb run
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Hey guys chill a bit. This is just one of those stories your grandpa tells you and you enjoy every minute. You generally don't start challenging your granddaddy over technical details and wording.
This person was just sharing a memorable story from his grandpa. He enjoyed it and thought he would pass it along to the AH community.
If you know how war stories are, particularly the "funny" ones, they may get modified along the way and over time.
Thanks for the story!
:)
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Thanks for sharing Matt.:D
btw OIO he said it was a Hurricane not a Spit. with such attention to detail i figure you must work for the media:D (j/k)
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I must be missing something.
I don't find anything funny in the death of your grandfather's friend and wingman. :confused:
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Thanks for the Story
I dont know why but I perfectly understood the situation unlike others :D
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Originally posted by oboe
I must be missing something.
I don't find anything funny in the death of your grandfather's friend and wingman. :confused:
I must say I agree. The 111's usually operated between 10k and 20k. The guy prolly froze to death if he deployed his chute at that alt.
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All depends on how long after touchdown he was found...
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slash, dont infringe my 1st amendment rights! ;) :D
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sorry OIO
:D
btw by making a joke to OIO, i mean no disrespect to a fallen war hero. to this brave soul
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i have to agree with Modas. That story is so cryptic i can't even get an idea of what his grand-dad is trying to say, . .or what's funny about it.
My Grand-dad fought for the Germans on the Russian front. He has two bullet holes in his bellybutton which is probably the only reason he's still alive.....having to be evacuated b4 the impending doom..he's 80 and still walks around the house crying every day at the suffering of people in war, . . .that includes the suffering of people like those in Palestine or Iraq who find themselves in situations beyond their control, but face horrible realities..... and he mumbles under his breath .....things like . ."A Russian man ..is a man just like me......" . over and over......, because of the way the German's propogandists dehumanized the enemies..and he still battles the ideas.. What scares me about our own situations in modern times, . .and being a U.S. citizen is how similar some peoples attitudes are in not seeing the humanity of others...
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Originally posted by OIO
The human body can go without food for 70 days, without water for 3 days.
You telling me he opened his chute SO high it took him more than 3 days to fall?
Sorry, I dont believe it.
No no no no... geez you guys are dense. The pilot was obviously so high his hurri mkXXIV ejection seat shot him into space where he starved, unable to return to earth. sheesh!
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Originally posted by Daniko
i have to agree with Modas. That story is so cryptic i can't even get an idea of what his grand-dad is trying to say, . .or what's funny about it.
My Grand-dad fought for the Germans on the Russian front. He has two bullet holes in his bellybutton which is probably the only reason he's still alive.....having to be evacuated b4 the impending doom..he's 80 and still walks around the house crying every day at the suffering of people in war, . . .that includes the suffering of people like those in Palestine or Iraq who find themselves in situations beyond their control, but face horrible realities..... and he mumbles under his breath .....things like . ."A Russian man ..is a man just like me......" . over and over......, because of the way the German's propogandists dehumanized the enemies..and he still battles the ideas.. What scares me about our own situations in modern times, . .and being a U.S. citizen is how similar some peoples attitudes are in not seeing the humanity of others...
A Major Salute to your Grandfather
My Uncle was a P-47 pilot in WW2...
He has similar feelings and thoughts...
Thank God for what they all did, so air combat is only a game to us.
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whats funny about it is the irony of it!
the guy was so scared of, i presume, falling to his death by forgeting to open his chute at the right alt, that he paniced and opened his chute there and then
another thing is the chute is ment to keep him alive, but in this case it killed him
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Originally posted by rogwar
Hey guys chill a bit. This is just one of those stories your grandpa tells you and you enjoy every minute. You generally don't start challenging your granddaddy over technical details and wording.
This person was just sharing a memorable story from his grandpa. He enjoyed it and thought he would pass it along to the AH community.
If you know how war stories are, particularly the "funny" ones, they may get modified along the way and over time.
Thanks for the story!
:)
yup, my grandpa was a WW2 Wellington Pilot in North Africa. He has many a story to tell, not many of them good.
he was shot down by ack while on a torp run. But if he told me he was shot down by pink rabbits wearing pinwheel hats i would believe him.
not just because i respect the man, but if i called BS he would cuff me one, (and i swear to god this man's hands are bigger than my head)