Hello All
Last night I was reading one of my favourite books, The Red Baron's Last Flight by Norman Franks and Alan Bennett (1997 edition, Grub Street, London).
On page 62 it notes that on that fateful flight Richthofen was wearing a Heinecke parachute harness. Franks and Bennett also quote from Signals Sergeant Norman Symes, who may have been the second soldier to reach the crashed Triplane. In 1982, Symes told the Sydney Sunday Post ... Beside the dead man in the cockpit lay a loosely bundled parachute. I gathered it up and ran to HQ...
I'm not quite sure what to make of the loosely bundled parachute. How could it be in that state and where had it been stored prior to the crash?
Best wishes
Nigel
