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Aviation History
1952
1952 - 0289.PDF
PARA-RESCUE COURSE THREE months ago, in our "Service Aviation" pages, we reported the names of R.C.A.F. medical personnel—of both sexes—who had dis tinguished themselves on a strenuous 14-week course of rescue work, held at a little used air-strip in the Canadian Rockies. In charge of the pupils was an R.A.F. parachute specialist, F/O. Roy Clark of Oxford. It is now possible to publish these fine photographs, taken at the very-open-air school where such courses are held. Primarily, the training is for rescue work on crashed aircraft in remote areas, the personnel being dropped by parachute when a wreck has been located from the air. The service was started origin ally by employees of Canadian Pacific Airlines; then, seeing its value to both civil and Service aviation, the R.C.A.F. took it over and expanded its scope. Trainees on a course make ten jumps, six over open country and four over dense forest. As the pictures show, they must also be prepared for moun taineering and for stretcher-carrying under the most arduous conditions; they must also be completely self-sufficient. It will be noticed that their equipment includes face-guards to provide protection against branches after drops over forest-land. The lower left-hand view is photographically re markable, showing as it does the parachute shroud-lines just beginning to slacken at the exact moment of touch-down. *«£? • •
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