Originally Posted by sigtauenus

Contortionist story sounds familiar.

One of the techniques I heard was to take the knife like hook jobby thing you are supposed to use to cut twisted parachute lines with and use it to rip open a hole in the flight suit. Other technique was no kidding unstrapping from the seat and taking everything off and dropping the flight suit. I honestly cannot imagine physically accomplishing that in the jet with the canopy shut. I guess you could with the autopilot on and coupled to the next few waypoints, but I bet you kick off the autopilot bumping the stick. Also, two of the stories I remember involve dash 2, one of them flying form on the tanker crossing the pond, so autopilot would be nothing more than altitude hold, maybe add heading hold.

Oh, and get this, one of the other stories I was sitting ODO, a guy jumps out of the jet on a hot-seat, turns over the jet, and doesn't mention to the on-coming pilot that the seat cushion was ruined by his catastrophic SAS valve failure. Needless to say, the on-coming pilot was pretty mad.