ROBIN,
     In a message dated 02-20-98 you wrote ...
> That Harrier pilot you reported on recently - his canopy blew out
> at 40,000 feet.
>
> Then there are the climbers of Mount Everest (29,000 feet), who do
> it without oxygen.  Of course, they do spend a month or so at high
> altitude to aclimatise...
    Our chutes have a bail out bottle attached.  It is a
 high pressure bottle that feed enough until you get down
 to safe altitude.. "Pull the green apple" for emergency
 oxygen.
    WW II did not have such... I made a delay from 23,000
 down to about 3,000 for one reason...
   -=*  Jim Sanders  *=-
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