Technical Scuba Diving
Background For the "Aviation Wrecks of Southern California" book, one of the planned chapters is about the story of the pilot who bailed out of a F4D "Ford" Skyray at 650 miles-per-hour at 18,000 feet -- and lived! I'm digging deeper into the story of Leo J. "Pete" Colapietro and trying to get more photos [...]
My initial "photo plan" on diving the F4D was to see if either wing was intact and, if so, get pictures of the shape of the wing since it is such a unique and iconic feature. Fortunately, one of the wings was intact enough to get those photos and then I started to move around [...]
Intro / The Crash I'm not sure what string of expletives test pilot Leo J. "Pete" Colapietro yelled when he bailed out of his F4D at 650mph over the ocean -- but I do know what he said from his hospital bed during his recovery: "It was one climax after another, after that." Leo J. [...]
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