Re: Europa-List: Emergency parachutes, opinions?

[Raimo Toivio <raimo.toivio@rwm.fi>]

> On Dec 16, 2009, at 4:56 AM, William Daniell wrote:
> 
> > Many pilots bailed out  in the last war and survived

...and at least one of them (extremely lucky one) bailed out w/o a parachute and
survived alive.
He dropped into a snowy swamp his ass first. That was during Winter War between
Finland and Russian. 
He was a Finnish pilot flying Brewster (that was NOT BW372 and do NOT try it at
home!).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War

http://www.warbirdforum.com/bw372.htm

Raimo Toivio
OH-XRT