This is an absolutely true story.. If Hollywood had done it, it would have been laughed off the screen as outrageous fantasy... but...

Grahame Donald, Royal Navy Air Service Pilot 1917...

flying in his Sopwith Camel executes a loop..up and over goes the biplane and, as he reaches the top of the circle, 6000 feet above ground , his safety belt snaps and out he falls. No parachute [ not issued as it was believed they would ' impair fighting spirit' if the pilots had one. ] nothing to break his fall he's dropping over 2000 feet.

Here's what happened in his own words:

" The first 2000 feet passed very quickly and terra firma looked damnably firma. As I fell I began to hear my faithful little Camel somewhere nearby. Suddenly I fell back on her. The Camel had continued around the loop and I landed on its top wing. I grabbed it with both hands, hooked one foot into the cockpit and wrestled myself back in..."


after struggling to take control he executed " an unusally good landing "...


Damn!!

let's see the jet flyboys try that manoeuver with a Hornet!!

Damn all I can say is " HE DA MAN"

Some people were just destined to live. What a story!