Tonights offering;
thought these may be interesting to those that never got 'down the back' during a para sortie. Taken by a photog for use in some briefing or other. When I first did the TS course as a captain, we were made to go down the back during a drop to see the effect of over zealous use of rudder on blokes stood up carrying mountains of kit. Very useful insight..... never seen so much vomit.
I'm sure AA62 or one of the experts can confirm, this was a 'wedge' load, dropped moments before the sticks of para were released-it cut down on the enormous weights they had to carry on operational drops.
