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[Gil Boyd]

This shows, how by the end of WW1 there was an option to leap to survive!!

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[30Three]

Interesting poster Gil. I'm surprised to see the two planes in flight are single wing types; but the aviator in the fore ground is obviously WWI period.
Although I believe the Germans did have a singe wing fighetr towards the end of the war.

[Gil Boyd]

Yes , I suppose it was to show the German aircraft were more advanced at the time as monoplanes!!
This is a very early parachuting poster at our Parachute Regiment Museum at the IWM at Duxford.
If you look at the harness.............not a lot has changed over the years on that, but the chutes are massively different, for weights/stearability used to day by parachute troops.

[Paul S.]

The Germans did have a monoplane, the 'eindecker' during WWI. The Germans were the first to supply aircrew parachutes. The RFC/RAF started to supply them near war's end if memory serves.

That said, it is possible that the poster is from the interwar era given that both monoplanes and biplanes were prevalent then. Then too, the Fairey Swordfish was still going strong early on in WWII. Commonly nicknamed 'the string-bag'. It was an open cockpit, fabric-covered biplane with a gunner in a ring turret similar to what is depicted on the poster.

GIL: You're not wrong about the harness. It is very similar to the X-Type parachute harness, circa 1940. That same harness configuration is still going strong today.

WWII RAF bomber crew (air gunners, etc.) wore a similar harness for a chest container parachute.

GQ X-Type Parachute | ParaData

[Cosine26]

The Germans had another monoplane at the end of the war-the Fokker DVIII. A high winged monoplane with a rotary engine .
FWIW

[Gil Boyd]

Paul,
Absolutely right. Good to see our PARADATA being used. It has just had a massive update which goes live in January 2018. Hope you like its new look.

[browningautorifle]

Balloonists used parachutes but pilots first thought they were cowardly, like accepting that you were going to be shot down. The French had a single wing too...WW1 Wings of Glory Airplane Packs Preview – Morane-Saulnier N Ares Games

Matter of fact I'm sure everyone did.

[Sunray]

"...the Germans did have a singe wing fighter..." Long before the end. Lots of 'em used on both sides. The bi-wing was more maneuverable. Max Immelmann drove a Fokker E.II Eindecker in 1915, but there were a lot more.
"...pilots first thought..." Wasn't them. Parachutes were well known before the war, but the Brit's wouldn't issue 'em. It was their higher ups that didn't want 'em jumping instead of fighting. Just like they didn't want the PBI wasting ammunition so they insisted on the mag cut off on Lee-Enfields.

[Gil Boyd]

.................and "Walk don't run, and keep your line as you advance" into a hail of lead!!

[30Three]

it's fare to say that the upper echelons of all the military services have a lot to answer for the handling of the troops at their disposal in WWI
Think "Disposable"