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7th July 2010, 20:46
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Weather Related Forced Bailouts
The Luftwaffe was forced to fly in some pretty dangerous weather during the winter of '43/44 and '44/45. And while many sources hint about and talk around the issue, how common was it for Luftwaffe fighter pilots to 'abandon the aircraft' for a parachute when they couldn't find or see the runway due to bad weather? Landing a Bf-109 with wing-mounted 20mm's in snow, fog and ice with zero or near zero visibility was probably not a very fun thing to do...
Bronc 
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