How high can you go? Pick an aircraft, hit max altitude, pop flare!

[Caesar]

that would have saved a life or 2

 

Factual and unfortunate statement. Word did get out about this recovery method, but it certainly wasn't fleet-wide. Apparently, the method worked in the Tomcat simulator as well.

 

From the man himself: http://www.tomcat-sunset.org/forums/index.php?topic=2441.msg25052;topicseen#msg25052