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Richard Herring

Jan 1, 1970
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Spehro Pefhany said:
Perhaps that's a good strategy for some things, but probaby you'd want
to make sure that you got a real parachute rather than a voucher.

Oh, they never let him *fly* anything. He was in the mapping unit.
OTOH, if the parachute was not that important, he could always sell it
to whatever the Brit equivalent of Milo Minderbinder's M&M Enterprises
was.

I don't know about parachute silk, but I understand that some ladies of
his acquaintance were never short of linen for their home furnishings
;-)
 
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John Woodgate

Jan 1, 1970
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I read in sci.electronics.design that Richard Herring <junk@[127.0.0.1]>
wrote (in said:
Oh, they never let him *fly* anything. He was in the mapping unit.

Ah! My uncle, who also didn't fly, said that a bicycle was much more
valued than a parachute.
I don't know about parachute silk, but I understand that some ladies of
his acquaintance were never short of linen for their home furnishings
;-)
Parachute silk was for more romantic applications.
 
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Richard Herring

Jan 1, 1970
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John Woodgate said:
I read in sci.electronics.design that Richard Herring


Ah! My uncle, who also didn't fly, said that a bicycle was much more
valued than a parachute.

But you can get further with the 3-tonner they used for delivering the
maps. And with access to a map-quality printing press, getting a weekend
pass was never a problem ;-)
Parachute silk was for more romantic applications.

Indeed so. I was probably too young to be told about that aspect.
 
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NunYa Bidness

Jan 1, 1970
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I read in sci.electronics.design that Autymn D. C.


You are a piece of paper, signed by someone in authority, giving someone
permission to do something or to receive goods?

Hahahaha...

Chit Man, Chit Man...

Second generation...

You're a soldier at sixty three.
 
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NunYa Bidness

Jan 1, 1970
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Or to *not* receive goods ;-) I had an uncle in the RAF who always made
sure he was at the back of the queue when stuff was being issued.
Instead of large pieces of cumbersome and mostly useless kit, he had a
collection of small neat chits saying he was excused bayonet frogs etc.
because they had run out.

Sure causes problems in important, life threatening circumstances.
Shoving a piece of paper in the end of you rifle doesn't "cut" it.
 
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NunYa Bidness

Jan 1, 1970
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I don't know about parachute silk, but I understand that some ladies of
his acquaintance were never short of linen for their home furnishings
;-)


You guys didn't use artificial fabrics for your parachutes?
 
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John Woodgate

Jan 1, 1970
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I read in sci.electronics.design that NunYa Bidness
You guys didn't use artificial fabrics for your parachutes?

In those days, there WERE no artificial fabrics strong enough to make
parachute canopies. Silk is VERY strong.
 
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Richard Henry

Jan 1, 1970
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NunYa Bidness said:
You guys didn't use artificial fabrics for your parachutes?

I believe the linen was used for printing maps.
 
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Richard Herring

Jan 1, 1970
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NunYa Bidness said:
Sure causes problems in important, life threatening circumstances.

What important, life-threatening problems do you think would confront
UK-based RAF ground crew in the early 1940s, and which piece of
regulation webbing would solve them?

(I don't believe they had military-issue St Christopher medals.)
Shoving a piece of paper in the end of you rifle doesn't "cut" it.

What do you imagine he'd have done with a rifle? Shoot at the bombs as
they fell?
 
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