Subject: fearful bombardiers, was Pilots afraid of their planes?
From: "Bob Coe"
Date: 9/12/2004 9:15 AM Pacific Standard Time
Message-id: wC_0d.24203$ni.23456@okepread01

"ArtKramr" wrote

Most pilots I have ever flown with were skilled and comfortable in the air
and
their planes. But every now and again you would run into a pilot who was
clearly afraid of their plane. This may have been truer in Marauders than
most
other planes. The old saying was, "show me a pilot afraid of his plane and
I'll
show you a dead pilot" was sadly all too true. Pity the crew who had such a
pilot and couldn't get out of flying with him.

Depending on how many back-up systems the B-26 had, would determine how
comfortable you would get with it. I know in my case it was probably 100
hours
before everything clicked, and I had flown enough to see a lot of different
emergency problems, or practiced them to boredom.

Did you guys have a lot of maintenance problems, or equipment failures in
flight?

Since you are bringing this up, it would seem you had a lot of aircrew
problems
in your outfit. or, was this just one incident in your tour? Sound's like a
real
****-up squadron to me. I can't imagine you guys getting a pilot that wasn't
qualified, as he also had to be a commander of a crew. The whole premise
sounds pretty fishy there Kramer. I think you're pulling our leg just to
make
bombardiers look better than pilots. Fess up paleoliberal!


Your mixing politics into a thread that was purely aviation shows you up for
the neocon bull****er you are. Go away.


Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer