For Entertainment’s Sake: Russian Ejects From a Topless Sukhoi Su-35 at Mach 2

by July 29, 2009 2813 Views

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Movie producers for an upcoming movie entitled Kerosene Cowboys, paid two Russians to fly a Sukhoi Su-35 without a canopy and have one of them eject at Mach 2.

The pilot describes an experiment he performed at Mach 2 in the topless Su-35:

While on this speed I even managed to pull out my fingers in glove for an inch or two outside – it became heated very fast because of immense friction force plane undergoes with the air.

Exactly how much the producers paid to get their hands on an SU-35UB prototype (the most advanced Su-type aircraft ever built) remains to be elucidated.

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[The DEW Line via Gizmodo]

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by C. S. Magor - Jul 28, 2009

by C. S. Magor - Jul 29, 2009

C.S. Magor is the editor-in-chief and a reporter at large for We Interrupt and Uberreview. He currently resides in the Japanese countryside approximately two hours from Tokyo - where he has spent the better part of a decade testing his hypothesis that Japan is neither as quirky nor as interesting as others would have you believe.
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  • Dangerous: Crazy Russian Mach 2 Ejection » The UberReview
    29 July 2009 at 5:58 pm
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