Baling Out: Amazing Dramas of Military Flying

by Robert Jackson

To bale out of a stricken airplane is a pilot's or aircrew's final chance to escape death. It is a traumatic and hazardous exercise that is only practiced in extremis and is in itself full of danger with no guarantee of survival. Many struggled free of a flaming and spinning aircraft only to see their parachute alight above them, some were machine gunned to death by their opponents as they drifted to earth, some landed in mine-fields and were blown...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844153479
• ISBN13: 9781844153473
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Pen and Sword Aviation
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.6"