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Old 3rd Apr 2018, 13:31
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There was a parachute trial at Akrotiri about '72, where a dummy was bailed out to trial an Vulcan rear crew parachute that would use a drogue gun deployment. It involved the Shack doing high speed runs at 300+.
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