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Recruit collapses his parachute after landing at Tatton Park.
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Balloon training to practise exiting through the floor.
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Recruit at Hardwick Hall dropping through mock fuselage to practise exit and landing.
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A recruit learns to steer a parachute in a flight trainer made of wood and rope.
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Instructor teaches three recruits the parachute roll on a soft surface.
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Wooden structure in hangar used to practise landing at various heights.
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Shot of a parachute training hangar filled with swing harnesses and other equipment.
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Recruit preparing to jump from a swing-style flight trainer at Ringway in 1943.
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View from inside a parachute training hangar.
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Indoor trainer at Ringway. Note the parachute related graffiti on the walls.
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Wooden indoor ground training apparatus at Ringway.
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Controlled descent from the parachute tower possibly at Hardwick Hall.
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Recruits in a Whitley practise static drills for simulated aircraft exit. One is ready to drop.
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A Ringway recruit learns what action to take on striking a tree.
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A recruit lies in a harness ready to be pulled in drag training.
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Very early shot of an instructor demonstrating the parachute roll to recruits at Ringway.
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A recruit jumps from a fan trainer which simulates actual parachute landing speeds.
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Recruit is just about to jump from a swing harness in a training building at Ringway.
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Recruits learn how to drop on ground training equipment at Ringway.
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Instruction sketches for parachute training pamphlet, showing X-Type Parachute
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Instruction sketches for parachute training pamphlet.
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Instruction sketches for parachute training pamphlet.
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Instruction sketches for parachute training pamphlet.
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Instruction sketches for parachute training pamphlet.
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Instruction sketches for parachute training pamphlet.
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Instruction sketches for parachute training pamphlet.
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Instruction sketches for parachute training pamphlet.
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Instruction sketches for parachute training pamphlet.
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Instruction sketches for parachute training pamphlet.
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Indian airborne troops are talked through ground training apparatus.
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Men standing on wooden swing harness used for teaching parachute control.
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Wooden ground training equipment replicating exit door of aircraft over sandpit for landing.
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Drag training teaches trainee parachutists to release themselves from being dragged by parachute on the ground.
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General Sir John Dill inspects a parachute with 11 SAS at Tatton Park December 1940
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