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As to whether on not there would have been more RFC aces, who knows? Hesitant even to venture a guess myself.
Concerning the British policy itself, I have wondered whether or not the pilots, once aware of the use of parachutes by both friendly balloon personnel and enemy pilots, threatened to stay on the ground. The military being what it is, such a stance might itself have resulted in death by execution. It is hard to believe that RFC pilots did not strive to be issued a lifeline that could save them from a terrible death, the type of which many of them saw their mates experience.
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