All of these comments reminded me of a book I once read by a Marine Second Lieutenant torpedo bomber pilot, WWII era. Part of his flight training was in double open seat biplanes at NAS Memphis. (The base was still like he described it when I was there in the late 1950's and early 1960's).
Anyway, one day a student and instructor went up with the instructor in front and student in the rear. The student forgot to buckle his lap belt, and when the instructor pulled the plane up and over in a loop, the student fell out. The instructor started to say something to the student through the speaking tube, and realized the student wasn't there. All the way back to the base, the instructor worried about how he was going to tell the CO that he'd lost a student out of his airplane.
After he landed, the instructor taxied up to the flight line, and at the same time the student walked up from a different direction dragging a deployed parachute. He forgot to buckle his lap belt, but at least he had the presence of mind to use his parachute when he needed it.
Actually, I suspect the author was what we would have referred to as a "s**tbird" during my days in the Corps. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant and several years later mustered out of the Corps, still a Second Lieutenant.
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