On 4 Sep 2018 16:44:11 -0700, Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com>
wrote:
>In article <lh2uod9f1lujjsie2sia88fc7ga4dqo710@4ax.com>, Stormin' Norman says...
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>>On 4 Sep 2018 15:20:38 -0700, Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com>
>>wrote:
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>>Ahhhh Connie, you are one of the top ten most beautiful aircraft ever
>>designed, IMHO.
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>As a dependent in the 50's returning from Japan to California, we wound up
>flying in a Navy C-121 across the Pacific...all seats faced backwards...I assume
>it was for safer ditching at sea reasons (with the seat-backs cushioning the
>impact)in case of emergency...unless someone can come up with a better reason.
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Despite all the advances in airframe and seat design I believe (but
cannot prove) that rear facing seats are safer. The RAF certainly
believed it for many years. I can remember flying in a British Eagle
Britannia (as a civilian) which was primarily used for trooping
contracts and it had rear facing seats. That would have been the
late '60s at a guess.
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