[QUOTE=Pontius Navigator;2822364]We fought long and hard even to get immersion suits as the ditching model sustained something like 25g on the cockpit and broke up. At 200 feet you would pile in or climb safely away on one engine.
We got the suits about 1979-80 and Art Stacey proved the aircraft could ditch.
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I must be going senile, but I thought we had them before I left in 78. I also remember that we fought long and hard for the quick don suits as worn by the cloggies.