Parachute training
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Originally Posted by rock_dove
what is the usual casualty rate, if any, from a tactical/operational jump?
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I should have remembered Suez, WZ662, but it must be my age. I was there flying top cover over the Hastings dropping at Gamil Airfield. Fortunately we saw no enemy for had we needed to mix it we would have been most likely gliding our Hunters back to Nicosia. (or making Martin Baker letdowns. What price parachute training then?)
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..didn't some of the aircraft (Sabres??) have to do exactly that?
gliding our Hunters back to Nicosia.
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The interesting thing about the heavy drop during Suez was that to do it they had to raid the 'museum' at the AATDC Old Sarum for the Jeep crash pans. The UK did have the Medium Stressed Platform (MSP) available but the only UK aircraft capable of dropping it, the Beverley, hadn't then been cleared to drop it. The MSP could have been used, as all the training the UK had done with it had seen it dropped from USAF C-119 and we all know how much the septics helped at Suez
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On the question of casualty rates on the DZ, we were expected to move from the DZ RV when we achieved 75% of the troops, when I was in back in the eighties. Any stragglers had to catch up/come round in casualty. I can't think that much has changed with SOPs. The plan never survies the start line.
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