IN WORLD WAR II, THOUSANDS OF YOUNG MEN JUMPED OUT OF AIRPLANES. Some 16 of them survived parachuteless falls. “Looking at this list of gannets two particularly impressive cases stand out of individuals that got through without help of snow and other natural safety belts: Alan Magee who fell thousands of feet onto St Nazaire train station, smashing through the glass roof (a brake?); and Paddy McGarry who survived a fall of over ten thousand feet and who was not found for a week. There are great men among great men and there are exceedingly lucky men among lucky men…”