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ILLUSTRATIONS: (1) A Zeppelin makes a bombing run over London. (2) A Q-Class Zeppelin flies over the English Channel, 1916. (3) The skipper and crew of a Zeppelin bound for England, 1917The skipper and crew of a Zeppelin bound for England, 1917. (4) Zeppelin crewmen in the machine-gun gondola during a raid on England, 1917. (5) Zeppelin attack on London and the Thames River. (6) 2d Lt. William L. Robinson and his observer down the Zeppelin SL.11 with their BE.2c over London, 3 Sept. 1916. (7) A BE.2c attacks a Zeppelin over England. (8) End of Zeppelin L32 over London. (9) Maj. Edgar Cadbury downs a Zeppelin over England with his DH-4, 5 Aug. 1918 (10) Lt. William Leefe-Robinson earns the VC for flaming a Zeppelin over London with his 39 Sqdn. BE.2c night fighter on 3 Sept. 1916.
SGT Wayne Dunn Amn (Join to see) LTC John Moncure SGT J.D. Corr SPC Lisa Hughes MIDN CAPT (Join to see) SPC Jon O. MSgt Guillermo Ybarra III (HVAC Recruiter) CPO Linda Aberdeen MSgt Dr. Elizabeth Masaniai, Ed.D. Lynn Maj (Join to see) MAJ Montgomery Granger SPC Bill Bailey CPT Wayne Douet CPL Ricoh Stinson SPC Gary C. COL (Join to see) MAJ (Join to see) SSG (Join to see) PO2 Rich McGinnis
SGT Wayne Dunn Amn (Join to see) LTC John Moncure SGT J.D. Corr SPC Lisa Hughes MIDN CAPT (Join to see) SPC Jon O. MSgt Guillermo Ybarra III (HVAC Recruiter) CPO Linda Aberdeen MSgt Dr. Elizabeth Masaniai, Ed.D. Lynn Maj (Join to see) MAJ Montgomery Granger SPC Bill Bailey CPT Wayne Douet CPL Ricoh Stinson SPC Gary C. COL (Join to see) MAJ (Join to see) SSG (Join to see) PO2 Rich McGinnis
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MAJ Hugh Blanchard
One wonders why the airship men did not have parachutes. Were they not available?
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MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D.
MAJ Hugh Blanchard No. The first to get parachutes were observers in balloons on the front starting in 1917. Only a handful of pilots of planes got chutes in late 1918.
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MAJ Hugh Blanchard
MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. - Now that took guts. It was "interesting" enough at Airborne School even after I had been sport jumping. But to deliberately go up hundreds or thousands of feet in a Zeppelin or observer balloon with no means of safe exit? Wow.
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MAJ Hugh Blanchard
SPC Bill Bailey - What's the phrase? I had an Advanced Course classmate who had a plane (a Navajo) and a private pilot's license and took several of us flying. He said you never want to run out of altitude, ideas and airspeed at the same time.
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SPC Bill Bailey
If it was on fire, yeah. If not, I think I'd eat my pistol. Maybe that too on the way down if I had to jump.
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