By: Drem - 26th February 2013 at 22:52
Hello,
Have just posted of pic to you re see if you can help recognise piece.
Ta in advance.
Drem.
By: Arabella-Cox - 26th February 2013 at 07:20
Will happily help you if I can.
By: Drem - 26th February 2013 at 07:10
Thats great thank you.
If I sent you a pic from a bit we recovered from an excavation, could you possibly help identify it for me in time for an exhibition we are holding.
Not from the dinghy though.
By: Arabella-Cox - 25th February 2013 at 21:20
Here you go.
This is the “K” type dinghy flat pack, with the CO2 inflation bottle in the ‘sleeve’ running down the long side of the pack.
By: Drem - 25th February 2013 at 20:49
Ta.
Did wonder about the air bottle and where it sat.
For some strange reason I thought it was packed into the underside of the aircraft.
Would anybody know of any pics with it in situ.
By: Edgar Brooks - 25th February 2013 at 07:21
Before the advent of the dinghy, pilots had the luxury of a sheet of rubber on top of the parachute, for which Al Deere, for one, expressed his regret when they lost it. The lozenge-shaped depression, in the seat, was supposed to take the compressed-air inflation bottle, though pilots said that it still did obscene things to their backsides.
By: QldSpitty - 25th February 2013 at 00:29
He sat on it in other words…
By: Arabella-Cox - 24th February 2013 at 20:12
It was part of the pilot’s parachute pack arrangement, stowed underneath it.
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