Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
KC-135s carried parachutes for the first 50 years of operation. Nobody ever made use of one.
Might wanna update your knowledge. The USAF’s Air Force Safety Center has a publicly archived safety magazine (downloadable in pdf form) from November 1964 (Vol 20 No 11) that covers a successful bailout from a KC-135 from the perspective of the nav who got scared and jumped out of a flyable aircraft.
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