A Very Unusual Air War: From Dunkirk to the AFDU - The Diary and Log Book of Test Pilot Leonard Thorne, 1940-45 by Leonard Thorne

Author:Leonard Thorne [Thorne, Leonard]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2013-01-31T05:00:00+00:00

2 January: Fourth flight. This would have been co-operation with the USAAF. The B26, called the Mitchell by the RAF, was a powerful and fast twin-engine medium bomber, now appearing in increasing numbers in Europe. It was a squadron of these machines that took off from an American aircraft carrier to achieve a major propaganda coup by bombing Tokyo.

4 January: With every 1,000 feet of altitude the air temperature drops by 1.5 degrees, so that at 30,000 feet the air temperature was 45°F below that at ground level. For example, on a cold January day with the temp at ground level 2°F, at 30,000 feet it would have been 43 degrees below zero. Freezing up of ancillary equipment such as camera guns was a potential problem.

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