Steve Dold wrote "This is an interesting point...how WOULD you get out of one of these things if it flipped over? Wait for someone to come along?"
I used to fly AH-1 Cobra's in the Army, they are set up with tandem
seating
and the front seater exits on the left and the back seater exits on the
right.
When AH-1's crash they tend to roll to one side or the other leaving one
person trapped and one able to get out.
We had small hatchets in a holder on the side wall so the trapped
person
could chop away the plexiglass and egress. (There was also a explosive
system
which blew the side windows out and the hatchets were a back up) but if
you
are concerned about flipping one over and being stuck then a small hatchet
might be worth bringing along.
We also had an inverter switch but that just turned on A/C
power..never
could get one to turn upside-down using the inverter <--joke
thats my two cents
Steve Jones
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