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1959
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18 SEPTEMBER 1959 FLIGHT II NATURAL SURVIVAL <RF*» SERIES 4 Armadillos AMPHIBIOUS The Hay the nine-banded armadillos of South and Central America decided to spread northwards, they set themselves a problem. For all practical purposes they're landlubbers—and with that heavyweight in overcoats who could imagine otherwise? So naturalists and other folk were pardonably puzzled when Dasypus novemcinctus—in order to ensure their survival and relieve the acute overcrowding of their natural habitat— suddenly appeared in places which left behind them many a wide, fast river. For a long time the popular theory, having discarded wild ideas of snorkels and such aids, was a d-e-e-p breath and a painful walk on the bottom. It was later seen, however, that these animals had actually achieved efficient flotation. On entering the water they first paddled with heads just breaking the surface and then started to gasp. Each gasp pumped- up the intestine which, fully inflated, became an internal- 'Liferaft'. In the case of the armadillo, nature quickly answered their problem . . , naturally! But with aircraft and'over- sea' safety of passengers and crews, it has taken R.F.D, many years of development to achieve the present high standard of efficiency in inflatable survival aids, which are now the world's pattern. ARBand MOS Design Ac/proved JtlR/SEM SURVIVAL INFLATABLE LIFERAFTS, LIFEJACKETS AND OTHER AERONAUTICAL EQUIPMENT R.F.D. COMPANY LIMITED • GODALMING • SURREY • TELEPHONE: GODALMING 1441 Also in N. Ireland. Australia, Canada, Africa, Holland, Sweden, France, Denmark, Norway,,Germany
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