Bailing Out

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Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
ISBN
9781844153473
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Pen & Sword Books The Limited
ISBN-10
1844153479
ISBN-13
9781844153473
eBay Product ID (ePID)
119778790

Product Key Features

Book Title
Baling Out : Amazing Dramas of Military Flying
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Military Science, Military / World War I, Military / Aviation
Publication Year
2006
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Technology & Engineering, History
Author
Robert Jackson
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
19.6 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
358.400922
Synopsis
To bale out of a stricken airplane is a pilot's or aircrew's final chance to escape death. It is a traumatic and hazardous exercise that is only practiced in extremis and is in itself full of danger with no guarantee of survival. Many struggled free of a flaming and spinning aircraft only to see their parachute alight above them, some were machine gunned to death by their opponents as they drifted to earth, some landed in mine-fields and were blown apart and many landed in forests and died suspended from the treetops. And yet many survived, some to fight again and some to become prisoners of war. This book relates the experiences of many airmen who survived to tell the tale, some quite remarkable because of pure good luck, some because of ingenuity and some through pure determination to survive at all costs. This book includes escapes from crippled German, British and US aircraft; stories of the first pilots to use parachutes in WW1; amazing escapes from aircraft in the inter-war years., To bale out of a stricken airplane is a pilot's or aircrew's final chance to escape death. It is a traumatic and hazardous exercise that is only practiced in extremis and is in itself full of danger with no guarantee of survival. Many struggled free of a flaming and spinning aircraft only to see their parachute alight above them, some were machine gunned to death by their opponents as they drifted to earth, some landed in mine-fields and were blown apart and many landed in forests and died suspended from the treetops. And yet many survived, some to fight again and some to become prisoners of war. This book relates the experiences of many airmen who survived to tell the tale, some quite remarkable because of pure good luck, some because of ingenuity and some through pure determination to survive at all costs.This book includes escapes from crippled German, British and US aircraft; stories of the first pilots to use parachutes in WW1; amazing escapes from aircraft in the inter-war years.
LC Classification Number
UG630

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