There's the story of the guy, he was in GQ I think, who was answering questions like "What is't like to:" "Get ejected from a fighter jet?" Scary shit, his fly

There's the story of the guy, he was in GQ I think, who was answering questions like "What is't like to:" "Get ejected from a fighter jet?" Scary shit, his flying machine was starting to do its real job which is of being a suicide machine, so he had to bail. The guy think he was an airman, became an inch shorter. EDIT: I would say instead of "real job" I would say "original job." Early aviation was full of deaths. First the guys jumping off the Eiffel tower with wings, splat. Then the famous German glider Otto Lilienthal, splat. Then more experiments, then eventually the Wright Brothers, who said "how do we fly without going splat?" Their invention was how to control the machine, wing warping. Others already could power it, just not control it. And they both lived in fear of splat, that's why they refused to fly on the same flying machine.