Parachute ejection

[SQB]

actually, that raises a good point, before opening the shoot they fell in a ball mostly, almost never in the skydiver posture.
I have even seen footage of the crew after bailing out, generally the curl up but keep their legs out, no hint of controlling the fall.

[Kye]

Probably too terrified to think to arch properly, which may also depend the level of training they receive to bail out.

I have no idea what it was like back then, but with sport skydiving, you receive 6-8 hours at least of ground school. That included practing the reach, correct body positions etc.

[Jg2001_Rasputin]

There is also a very nice russian made WWII training video on the web. It covers emergency procedures especially bailing out from bombers and I CANT FIND IT ANYMORE!

[major_setback]

Premature ejection when you hit the silk really needs adressing.

[Jg2001_Rasputin]

After a 1,5 hour search using all stuff of translators, acronyms, searchsites I finally found it!

Soviet instruction video about bailout procedure from different kind of planes:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

[Novotny]

Oh well done! I was also searching for it after seeing your post but gave up, wasn't getting anywhere. Cheers!

[Reggie Mental]

The parachute looks like a USAAF Bowman or a very similar design. The bag it came in looked like US design too. Probably provided along with the lend lease P39s and P40s.

Is the parachute storeman saying 'Here you go Comrade, if it doesn't work, bring it back and I'll give you a new one'?

[HappyRogger]

If in a reality pilots so quickly could leave the plane and develop a parachute like in CoD video, airplane crew victims would be many many times less.

[fireflyerz]

After a 1,5 hour search using all stuff of translators, acronyms, searchsites I finally found it!

Soviet instruction video about bailout procedure from different kind of planes:

Part 1

Apart from alot of very modern features in there harness/container system its Interesting to see that they were already employing what looks to be a packers seal on the pins.

[Royraiden]

Originally Posted by fireflyerz

After a 1,5 hour search using all stuff of translators, acronyms, searchsites I finally found it!

Soviet instruction video about bailout procedure from different kind of planes:

Apart from alot of very modern features in there harness/container system its Interesting to see that they were already employing what looks to be a packers seal on the pins.

Nice find.The bail out time seems minuscule but they were practicing,imagine that plane on fire spinning like crazy and falling fromthe sky at around 450 km/h.It would definitely be quite harder.