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Re: Pre WW2 Belgium Parachute Bailouts ?
"In 1926, the Belgian government launched a competition for the selection of a metal-built fighter plane. Alfred Renard decides to participate in this competition with a device of his design: the Sparrowhawk Fox . It is a high-wing monoplane aircraft of avant-garde design at a time when the “biplane” formula was the order of the day. Two prototypes are built: the first in the Stampe & Vertongen workshops, the second in the SABCA workshops.
However, the Hawk built by Stampe and Vertongen was destroyed in October 1928, after test pilot Charles Wouters parachuted after an untimely spin."
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