If you're planning on booking a rider onboard the Lancaster Bomber, take a look at this video to see how difficult it is to move throught the aircraft. www.lincsaviation.co.uk
And that, girls and boys, is a reason why Lancasters took so many of their crews with them when they were shot down. I have "Lancaster, The Biography" by Tony Iveson, who said that the successful bailout rate from the aircraft was around fifteen percent.
The chap isn't exactly dressed for twenty thousand feet , so add full flight gear , and exiting the aircraft in a spin is neigh on impossible .It's almost as if the parachute was an optional extra when it came to boarding the aircraft - its a toss up which was more suicidal trying to exit the turret of a Boulton-Paul defiant when on fire , or a Lanc
