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Artur,
to my knowledge the Entente aviators did not use parachutes but I have heard about some pilots trying to use chutes on private initiative.
The Germans used parachutes starting in Fall 1917 but more widespread since Spring/Summer 1918. I have heard also about the use of parachutes by Austrian-Hungarian aviators.
Before a PC crash a while ago I had a list of ca 70 incidents with parachuting German airmen - despite of the parachute ca 1/3 of the number died because of different reasons (parachute burned, parachute did not open because of low altitude or was damaged by Flak or MG fire or parachute worked but aviator was already badly wounded etc.).
We had a lot of threads about the topic parachutes in the past but it is always a new thread worth.
VBR
Rammjaeger
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