On August 9, 2024, the aviation world marked the 75th anniversary of a groundbreaking moment in its history: Lieutenant J. L. “Pappy” Fruin’s historic ejection from a malfunctioning F2H-1 Banshee at 30,000 feet, making him the first US Naval aviator to use an ejector seat in a real in-flight emergency.
On August 9, 1949, Fruin was piloting his F2H-1 Banshee en route to...
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