A gameplay mishap prompts a reminder of why parachutes became increasingly important during the First World War. Early resistance treated escape equipment as incompatible with courage and encouraged pilots to remain with doomed aircraft. That attitude weakened as services accepted that withdrawal could preserve a trained aviator for another mission. Aircrew were a scarce institutional investment rather than an inexhaustible supply of replacements.
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Why First World War pilots eventually received parachutes
A brief aside connects the adoption of parachutes with changing attitudes toward survival and the growing recognition that trained pilots were not expendable.