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There are fewer than 500,000 U.S. WWII veterans still with us. Here is an article that is very touching about one of those veterans and how a German researcher sent him back some bits of his B-24 with a note. This is one hell of an aviation-related read. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/military/sd-me-found-plane-20190114-story.html
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I stumbled across a good book on Amazon Kindle called Carrier Pilot. It's a WWII memoir of an RAF pilot who trained with the Yanks in Pensacola before heading out to war. I'm only a few chapters in, but his prose and dry sense of British humor is enjoyable reading and his descriptions of flight are spot-on. Here's a good example as he describes spin training...quoted from the book: "The classic method of recovery is to kick on full opposite rudder to stop the spin, centre the ailerons with the joystick and then to ease forward on the stick to regain flying speed. (The main thing is to remain cool!) Provided you are not close to Mother earth, all you have to do after that is to ease back gently on the stick until you level out from the resultant dive. On the other hand, if you are too close to those green fields you will quite rapidly and altogether too noisily cease to take any further interest in the proceedings and will henceforth be nothing more than a shovel-and-wheelbarrow job." If you enjoy these books I'd encourage you to look for it...only $3.99 on Amazon.
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I just read this this morning. It's a light read with just enough technical information to make it interesting. The engineer's name was Frank Walker and he helped to pioneer water injection. From what I gleaned from the profile, he was also instrumental in discovering how to use super lean efficiency ratios (LOP). Sorry for the crude link; I can't embed links with an iPad. http://www.enginehistory.org/Frank%20WalkerWeb1.pdf- 2 replies
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