Parachute jump

[sunny91]

Why jump from a airplane like anybody?

Sunny

 

[Konigstiger205]

Because there are better chances of survival...

 

[ccheese]

Didn't the Russian paratroops slide off the wing of a large aircraft
during WW-II ?? Saw a video of that somewhere...

Charles

 

[ToughOmbre]

Didn't the Russian paratroops slide off the wing of a large aircraft
during WW-II ?? Saw a video of that somewhere...

Charles

Good memory Charles. But it might have been pre-war. There was an airborne exercise in 1936 of about 1,800 troops. The jumpers were carried face down on the wings of bombers. The paratroopers held onto a rope to keep from being blown off before the jump point.

TO

 

[Konigstiger205]

Russians and their crazy ideas...
Who remembers the "antitank dogs"?....

 

[syscom3]

I remember seeing a video of a mass jump off of a Twin Beech from back in the late 70's.

One guy slid down the fuselauge and got a whip antenna right in his privates!

 

[Konigstiger205]

That's gotta hurt....but funny in the same time

 

[alpino1977]

Didn't the Russian paratroops slide off the wing of a large aircraft
during WW-II ?? Saw a video of that somewhere...

Charles

You are right! that video shows paratroopers sliding off the wing of a TB-3 bomber converted as troop transport because obsolete as a bomber