I sit here looking at that photo and find myself pondering their only means of escape...when the crowd lifts the aircraft up enough to open that silly forward hinged canopy...imagine it happening at some of the remoter places in Oz...they'd find two skeletons a year or 6 later.
I also find myself pondering the thoughts of those proponents of putting the gear down when, in a retract aircraft, you're faced with the prospect of a forced landing on an unknown surface, especially when pondering the first link above showing them on their way over
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also find myself experiencing a warm fuzzy glow thinking about the two escape hatches built into my 38 year old Bo...the exact design of which has been on every Bo since the first in 1947.
Wouldn't have happened on a taildragger either...tricycle undercarriage being the ONLY design fault my Bo posseses
I just LOVE 'old' technology.