Comments by "Simon Nonymous" (@Simon_Nonymous) on "The Ambrosini SS.4 – Italy’s Deadly Duck" video.

Did he wear his grubby mac when he flew?
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@WALTERBROADDUS maybe because so often when you see simialr or identical ideas put into practise it was the case - reverse engineering, industrial espionage, etc. There are of course genuine cases of invention.
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@rudolfthecat1176 apologies I thought I'd posted this earlier, if I've double posted, sorry; the Shinden grounded its prop in its first fast taxiing trials, and a comment made about the Brit version having dolly wheels to protect the prop makes me think this was in fact a problem.
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@neutronalchemist3241 drag on the pilot, and lots of it, so they decelerate quicker than gravity can drag them down, especially if the emergency exit was topsides, the crew would be above the main wing as they can't fall through it can they, so maybe in a fighter plane no more than 1.5 metres before they pass the tail planes. The poor buggers didn't fall enough to miss the tail planes.. There are enough accounts of air crew hitting the rear tail fins, even in RAF night bombers, to make this not an unusual event.
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@WALTERBROADDUS usually the thinner parts of the plane were to the rear - the engine was much bigger than the typical empennage.
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