Bruce Wright's "three-place" plane hired by the Pittman-Robertson boys had special skiis for snow landings. The plane also carried a blow torch for warming the engine on cold mornings, and a stiff whisk broom for removing frost from the wings. The P-R boys also wanted an experienced pilot. "Any pilot with a series of 'crack-ups'to his record had perhaps better be passed up, " they wrote in a report.
A standard accessory for this plane was a 40-foot piece of rope "...to permit the crew to escape from the plane if it ever happened to be suspended in the tops of some trees." Such a procedure is not so far-fetched when vou consider all the low- level flying over wooded areas; if the engine quit in such a position, the pilot was trained to maneuver the plane so it would catch in trees instead of crashing to the ground.