You're listening to the Afterburn Podcast, episode number 27.

Alpitude, Alpitude.

Tatar's picture is released to you, runway 4,

1,000, 40 5, click your takeoff.

Seats on the air-tour-zero eyes, we're clear for takeoff, clear for the airspace.

Fire-per-check-2.

I'm press on the plane.

On my paragraph car, pull is at 3-5. I'm going to be able to do. What?

That's it.

Hyper 0 1 be advised the restricted 8,0002 is still active.

So ahead, that's on.

Back to 8, 16. My peripheral vision all I could sense was nothing nothing and then the ground.

All I could sense was nothing nothing nothing and then the ground just coming rushing up to meet me and I've got to tell you right now that's the only time in the whole event that I felt any sort of fear because the rate at which the ground was coming up to meet me I was convinced was you know I thought that was end game I thought the shoot's not opened I'm coming down way too quickly

there's no drift because that's the voice of my guest today

squadron leader Martin Pert call sign Perti and if you couldn't tell by his

accident he's from across the pond. Mary Old England.

He's flown the Harrier, the Eurofighter.

He has been a member of the Red Arrows team and then most recently the leader of the Red Arrows.

In that clip he is talking about surviving the

ejection in the Harrier while on a deployment to Kandahar. We dig

through his career. He has a lot of nuggets of wisdom as well as just a

fascinating path through aviation which I think you'll enjoy

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