BALING OUT
AIRMAN'S SENSATIONS
WOMAN WASN'T SURPRISED
To most people the idea of baling out is terrifying. Here, in contrast, arc the candid feelings of SquadronLeader Lynn, D. F. C.: — "I'd just jumped from a rattling, almost uncontrollable aircraft —and the change was grand. With my rip cord in one hand and cap in the other I jumped. "I don't remember pulling the rip cord( but I suddenly found it loose ■ —and I was swinging gently from side to side in the clouds. It was the most marvellous sensation. So peaceful and quiet after all the racket In the aircraft. "I had no sensation at all of falling—only moving gently about in the air, with a soft breeze brushing my face. I stuffed the ripcord into my pocket (they like you to bring these back), tucked n\y cap safely under my harness, and Avent on floating through the clouds. . . "A woman Avho was looking after the bar never turned a hair as I walked in, covered with mud, wet through, and with the paracjmte hanging over my arm. I explained what had happened: and she just said: 'You'd better come up to the lire and get warm,' then went on knitting."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 79, 17 July 1942, Page 3
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201BALING OUT Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 79, 17 July 1942, Page 3
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