AEF Chipmunk safety video

I will always remember waddling out to the aircraft wearing the parachute.

That brings back memories – CCF 1947 pattern RAF battledress in the early 1970’s with 7AEF at RAF Newton. The harness pulled the crotch up so the trousers went half-mast – which added to the general feeling of looking like a complete idiot when you tried to nonchalantly walk out to the Chippie doing a passable impression of the Hunchback of Notre Dame -and then you had to climb up onto the wing root….

I will always remember waddling out to the aircraft wearing the parachute.
Parachutes which were curiously marked US. I don’t think there were American either. 🙂

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There has been a thread on RAF Chipmunks on Pprune recently with photos and links.
http://www.pprune.org/military-aircrew/412255-raf-chipmunks.html
mmitch.

never got to fly in a chippie they had been replaced by Bulldogs by the time i got do some AEF flying from RAF Woodvale, shame really. Did get to fly in the Grob Tutor and the Vigilant motor glider also a few times, the highlight though was a flight in a Nimrod from Kinloss!! Now that was fun!! 😎

“I’ll only tell you to jump once, laddie. If you hear it a second time it will be an echo, because I will have already left!”

I always remember Ced Hughes at 5AEF reminding you to pull the handle once clear of the aircraft as the film didn’t actually tell you to do it. How to yes but to do no.
He also said never worry if as you float down over the Cambridgeshire countryside if you hear a brass band. Don’t worry it will be him with a welcoming committee to pin a medal on you for being the first to jump for “x” years and not your final calling…

What’s your name son?? John Andrews Sir!! I always seem to remember that bit…

I still remember being very sternly told: “Aim for a spot ahead of the trailing edge of the wing. By the time you reach it, it will be ahead of you and you will fall astern of the trailing edge.”

He didn’t mention anything about the approaching tail-plane, though, as I recall!

“Jump jump John”.