T.O 03-1-57 Man Pickup Kit
Army Air Force Man Pick-up Kit
The man pick-up kit is designed for use by marooned personnel in inaccessible areas where time, terrain, or enemy encirclement makes rescue by land impractical and where aircraft cannot be safely landed. The following pages are prepared to instruct you in the part which the stranded person plays in the operation.
The remainder of this book will follow the presumption that you are the marooned person to be res-cued, that you have just removed this book from the drop kit and are prepared to use it erecting the pick¬up station.
The drop kit is one of two sections comprising the pick-up apparatus. The other is the pick-up arm, line and windlass carried aboard the plane.
The purpose of this mechanism; first—to catch and hold the nylon rope to which your harness is fastened, second—to distribute the shock by playing out line at the time of contact, and third—to reel you into the plane.
The kit contains merely a framework, or standard upon which the 90 foot loop can be stretched and erected, and made an easy mark for the pick-up plane. It also provides a special harness which holds the body in a position to absorb the shock most easily.
Teats conducted by the A. A. F. Air Technical Service Command have been uniformly successful. No injury or harmful after-effect has been sustained by any of the volunteer subjects.
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