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Old 13th Jun 2017, 15:16
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Stitchbitch
 
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In this day and age why are people still flying high performance 'warbird' aircraft in cloth hats? Surely a carbon fibre shelled 'hard' helmet with a polycarbonate visor would provide much better protection during a roll over like this, or during a simple wheels up.

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