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Pardo Push

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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A pilot's aircraft (or space craft) has been damaged, and has lost an engine, or is leaking fuel, but is still airworthy. Due to the damage, he won't be able to make it back to friendly territory, and may be forced to eject and become Trapped Behind Enemy Lines. That is, of course, unless the Ace Pilot is able to help him get out of enemy territory somehow. But how?
If he is crazy awesome enough, he might just push the other guy to give him a boost.
Because Reality Is Unrealistic, the Trope Namer is the Real Life Pardo's Push, with Alliterative Name to boot.
Not to be confused with a Tractor Beam. If you end up with an Ass Shove, then you have done something horribly wrong.
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 Done in the X-Wing Series novels during the Wraith Squadron arc. An X-wing is damaged and its pilot unconscious, so another pilot uses his own X-wing in an attempt to nudge the damaged craft into a less pointed-at-the-ground trajectory. He almost manages it, and gets a medal for trying (and living through the attempt). He considers it a Medal of Dishonor because he failed.
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 JAG: Harm, being the embodiment of all that is great in fighter pilots, does this to help a stricken fellow Tomcat make it over a coastal mountain range so he can eject over the ocean rather than over Serbian territory. A Title Card at the end of the episode references the Real Life example of this trope, as they tend to do when borrowing particularly outlandish flying feats from history.
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 Battlestar Galactica: In the miniseries, Starbuck pulls this maneuver to get Apollo back to Galactica after his Viper is crippled in combat. Of course, rather than just pushing his fighter as in the other examples, she actually forcibly slams into his, locking their ships together before afterburning back to Galactica. Apollo being (at the time) not as ballsy as Starbuck, yells that she's beyond insane the whole way in.
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 Occasionally employed by Scott Manley in his video's for Kerbal Space Program to retrieve or de-orbit non-functional space craft. Mostly of the automated variety, but on at least one occasion to rescue a Kerbal stranded in orbit after a staging accident.
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