PPPF:
It was a truly sad comment on courage and sense of duty by RAF pilots and air crews. Suggest yoy read "No Parachute" by
Arthur Gould Lee, Jarrolds Publishers (London) Ltd, 1968. Appendix "C" tells the story!! It was not until 1922 when the standard service emergency parachute was developed and proven and it became the world standard, the Irvin Seat Pack. Then the RAF adopted it as the RAF Standard.
Blue skies,
Dan-San
Dan