To: LibWhacker
If the crew was found alive...Did nobody bother to ask them how they got off the plane without parachutes?
To: TheDandyMan
Often B-17s would carry a double number of chutes stacked on each other. The bottom chute would protect the upper chute from flak shrapnel.
11 posted on
10/16/2020 11:57:48 AM PDT by
diatomite
(Soros delenda est and his flying monkeys too.)
To: TheDandyMan
B-17s carried extra chutes at times.
28 posted on
10/17/2020 5:42:29 AM PDT by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson