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

Submitted by C. S. Magor on Wednesday, 29 July 2009One Comment | Google Buzz |

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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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