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Old October 24th 03, 07:32 PM
ArtKramr
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Subject: Fly Boy ?????
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Date: 10/24/03 7:59 AM Pacific Daylight Time
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Subject: Fly Boy ?????
From: "Gord Beaman" )
Date: 10/24/03 7:49 AM Pacific Daylight Time
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(ArtKramr) wrote:

Subject: Fly Boy ?????
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(Peter Stickney)
Date: 10/23/03 9:41 PM Pacific Daylight Time
Message-id: rhaanb-9f1.ln@Minesha

Note to Art: The Martin B-26 also wasn't a good candidate for
ditching, either.

No kiddiing. We had 30 seconds before the B-26 dove for the the bottom.

Those
of us who served in B-26's were well aware of that as proven in ditching

tanks.

Arthur Kramer


Proven?!?. I doubt that, 'Estimated' maybe...certainly not
proven.

Art, I don't think that you'd be smart to bet on those 30
seconds. Mind you, you may have 30 hours depending on how the a/c
hit the water among lots of other things.

I've done hundreds of ditching drills where we needed to get an
18 man crew out on the hangar floor carrying their proper items.
We could usually do it but remember that you're doing the testing
in a nice warm lighted hangar, not the middle of the North
Atlantic in a winter gale after the trauma of a night ditching...
--

-Gord.



I think Art may be talking about "one a day in Tampa Bay" not hanger drills.


Exactly.

Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
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