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echo: aviation
to: BILL WUNSCH
from: HUBERT BARNICH
date: 1998-05-24 22:45:00
subject: Wing sparks

Hi Bill,
In a message of  to Hubert Barnich (2:293/2606.39), you 
wrote:
 BW> Greetings, Hubert!
 BW>   On 09 May 98, Hubert Barnich entered the following ASCII codes for the
 BW> express viewing pleasure of Bill Wunsch:
 HB>
 HB> I recently saw an article (written in a RAF magazine) where the author
 HB> said Lancasters were flying coffin... When hit, nobody had place to bale
 HB> out, except the navigator. as That plane had just one emergency exit,
 HB> under the cockpitt...
 BW> I believe the tail gunner could bail out by swivelling the turret all 
he
yes, for the rear gunner
 BW> way around.  If things where still functional, they could open the bomb
 BW> bay doors and dive out that way.
no, no way to go into the bomb bay, and bale out from there...
The writer said that, apart from rear gunners, they found not a lot
of other air crews when the POW camps were liberated...
 BW>                                              -==-
 BW> -=- GoldED/386 2.42.G0615+
 BW>  + Origin: Bill's Point -=- Regina, Sask, Canada (1:140/118.1)
Bye, Hubert.
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