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Re: 2nd pilot in a hampden
The procedure is described in “The Hampden File” by Harry Moyle. Page 66.
The difficulty experienced by a second pilot in taking over the controls was described by Robin Hooper, who practiced the change – over drill with Len Ratcliff at 16 OUT in 1941. “After letting down the hinged back of the pilot’s seat, the first pilot lay back while the second pilot took hold of the control column, then, sitting astride the prostrate body of his comrade, carried out the trickiest part of the exercise – that of moving the first pilots feet from the rudder pedals and inserting his own in their place. The final act was the removal of the original pilot by dragging him out from under the posterior of his replacement. The exercise was later removed from the syllabus because it was too dangerous.
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