Posted by Goose on July 08, 2011 at 06:49:44 from (173.190.237.126):
In Reply to: plane ride posted by mosinee dave on July 07, 2011 at 18:54:13:
I read a book once by a Marine Lieutenant who had gone through flight training in Memphis in WWII using dual open cockpit bi-plane trainers. The instructor sat in front and the student in back.
The Lieutenant told about once a student in his unit forgot to buckle his lap belt. During the course of the ride, the instructor pulled the plane up into a loop. At the top of the loop when the plane was inverted, the student fell out. All the way back to the base, the instructor tried to figure out how he was going to explain losing a student out of the airplane.
After landing, when the instructor was taxiing up to the flight line, the student walked up from a different direction dragging a deployed parachute.
Forgot to buckle his lap belt, but he at least had the presence of mind to use his parachute when he needed it.
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