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July 20th 07, 07:55 PM
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Replenishment Runs [was: Climbing on board a fighter]
"Boomerang" wrote in
: Nothing in the Pilots handbook mentioned that two kegs of Oktoberfest in the nose turret of a P4M-1Q on the Germany-Morocco return leg created a "step" that gave you an additional eight knots at best cruise and insured a warm mid-October welcome from the gang at home in Port Lyautey.... There are photos on the net, of a Spitfire with a keg or two of Ale on bomb shackles. "something for the troops" during ferry flights. Chuck Yeager also references stopping in France returning from fighter sweeps and bringing a case of Champagne back on his lap. 
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