He would not be able to bail out, whatever happened. ![]() ![]() Cliff reached for his parachute while the aircraft was in a dive and accidently operated the parachute’s release, so that it billowed out in the aircraft, to his utter dismay. The pilot carried out some urgent evasive manoeuvres but then proposed that everyone should bail out as the situation looked hopeless. After a successful operation they were on the way back when their aircraft was attacked by some Junkers 88’s. The Parachute that billowed out in a Lancaster in flightįlight Lieutenant Clifford Storr was the navigator in a Lancaster. It was fortunate that we weren’t in the air at the time! Anyway, it was sackcloth and ashes for me. I was nearly there when my foot slipped and crashed through the aircraft’s fabric. The Wellington’s master compass had to be kept as far as possible from magnetic influences so it was towards the rear of the aircraft, the pilot using a slave compass.īefore one flight, as navigator, I went, as usual, along the reinforced area, in the blackness of the night, to check the working of the master compass. ![]() For anyone walking along the fuselage, there was a reinforced area, virtually a plank of wood, that they had to walk along, as the fabric was not intended to take the weight of a human body. The Wellington had a unique ‘geodetic’ construction - a trellis-like duralumin framework, covered by Irish linen, which was then given several coats of dope, a type of varnish. Putting my foot through the floor of a Wellington bomber
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