Returning to the task of analyzing the situation: the engine indications, and the by now bone-jarring vibration and ear-splitting shriek from the Rolls-Royce Viper jet engine leaves little doubt that I am experiencing a rare but serious total engine failure. Whatever caused this otherwise reliable engine to become so unhappy is now threatening to disintegrate it. Although I have never experienced this before, I know from various accounts and long hours of reading that when a jet engine disintegrates, it is not pretty. It throws off pieces of red-hot super-hard and heavy compressor and turbine blades from and axle that spins at thousands of RPM. This debris punches through the engine casing at high velocity and slices through anything in its path. I know that it is a matter of time until this engine fails catastrophically and in doing so severing high pressure fuel hoses, oil pipes, and hydraulic lines webbed around the engine casing. The highly combustible mist spewed from these severed high-pressure lines will come in contact with the red-hot exposed parts of the fractured engine and create high pressure blow torches, cutting through the remaining bits of airframe and flight control rods, leaving no more than 30 seconds of flight before the entire airframe may disintegrate. Worse even, is the possibility of flight control rods severed, rendering the aircraft uncontrollable as there would be no connection between the elevators or rudder and the control stick in my hand or the rudder pedals under my flight boots. If this happens, I know I will eject without having to make too much of a decision at all: Ejection is the only option if the pilot is no longer in control of the aircraft.