just had another watch-through of Hell's Angels. Just to remember the draw to the first airwar. Being trapped shot in a spinning wreck at high-G's also looks like a hard way to go.

I had read that IIRC Mick Mannock and not-so IIRC some others carried pistols up with spoken intention to shoot themselves if caught on fire they couldn't put out. Better to die quickly and all that but they flew the planes and carried the lead aspirin.