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[brando]

I was totally freaked-out the first time I ever bailed out of a bi-plane when I was flying in Dawn of Aces, the WW1 sim from the Warbirds stable.
IIrc, keying eject flipped one into the eyes of the falling pilot, with the option of hitting an outside view of the descender. Trouble was, no parachute!! After a long drop the view flipped to a black silhouette of the dead pilot, like one of those superhero "he ran through the wall" drawings.
The weird thing was, the silhouette was of a one-armed man! Spooky, I thought, how do they know? (I only have one arm).

I discovered the simple explanation when I moved to the Warbirds WW2 sim and saw that any bailed pilot went down holding his service pistol pointed forwards, fore-arm extended at 90 degrees to the upper arm. It was actually possible to fire six shots at any thing which came in range, and also to rotate the pilots body/ chute in the vertical axis. I don't recall anyone ever getting a kill

In DoA the pistol was there, unusable though, and the game rendered the impact outline as a one-armed man.

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