Subject: Fly Boy ?????
From: "ArVa"
Date: 10/22/03 3:11 PM Pacific Daylight Time
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"Gordon" a écrit dans le message de
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. Opposite is when another Mossie
took a terminal hit at 33,000' and the escape hatch jammed. The pilot
stayed
in down to 6 grand, waiting on the Nav to escape and only at that point
did he
direct the Nav to follow him out the top hatch (the pilot had to be out of
his
seat for the Nav to use his overhead hatch). In that case, the pilot
perished,
while his Nav hit the ground after two swings in his 'chute.


There was also this Free French pilot of the Normandie-Niémen squadron, on
the russian front. As he was approaching a new airfield at the end of a
relocation flight, his Yak had a major engine malfunction. Despite formal
orders from both French and Russians officers to jump and save his life, he
refused to bail out and therefore abandon his Russian mechanic he was
transporting in the rear tank of his plane. Both perished.

His name was Maurice De Seynes.

ArVa


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