RUBBER DINGHIES
CARRIED BY FIGHTER PILOTS PLACED IN PARACHUTE PACK (Hoc. 8.30 p.m.i RUGBY, May 13. R.A.F. fighter , pilots are now being fitted with collapsible rubber dinghies —little open boats that arc incorporated, when deflated, in the parachute pack. Bomber crews have long- carried rubber boats, and many lives have been saved through their use, but hitherto the fighter pilot has had to rely on his “Mae West/’ or life packet. Now that the fighter command pilots are constantly flying across the channel on offensive patrols into northern France, they are to be similarly equipped. The new type of dinghy is packed with the parachute in a cushion on which the pilot sits in the cockpit.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24607, 15 May 1941, Page 7
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