While a 60 year old aircraft is not unusual, one that's still in production after 60 years is... 2

[btrueblood]

Very cool, berk, was not aware of them.

 

[HamburgerHelper]

Wiki says Piper Cubs had a stall speed of 38 mph. It surprises me its that low. There were missions during WW2 of Russians jumping out without parachutes into snow in Finland. Jumping out of a Piper Cub at 30-40 mph into powdered snow would probably be very survivable.

 

[Sparweb]

HH,
I read somewhere that Britain got a lot of spies into France during WW2 that way.
The aircraft would fly low and slow over a farmer's field, the spy would tuck and roll out a side door, and the plane would gradually bumble away (using as little engine power as possible yet still climb).


STF

 

[rb1957]

I'd've thought that the Brit's would've used the Westland Lysander for spy delivery.

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