...I worked on developing a streamlined target, towed by airplanes, that could be maneuvered to simulate realistic fighter attacks while flying far enough below the tow plane to keep the plane safe from stray trainee bullets. In our first launch from a bomb bay, the target got jammed against the tow planes fuselage in such a way as to prevent the bomb-bay doors from closing. So we couldnt land. At the pilots insistence (I will not repeat his heated words), I dislodged the target by jumping on it while hanging from a bomb-bay rack and wearing a parachute, just in case. After that experience, we mounted the target externally and soon had a usable offset tow-target system...http://physicstoday.org/pt/vol-54/iss-8/p40.html
