Clyde
Can you imagine those same pilots arriving over their destination
airport by DR, finding an over cast (undercast) and deciding to spin
down through the goo to break out at "minimums"? Talk about ballsy?
But, that same technique has saved my tookus twice that I can think of
when crop spraying in Pawnees. once in Louisiana and again in
Mozambique.
I've frozen my tender body in Stearmans while giving instruction in
winter, and thought of those intrepid pilots doing airmail runs with
little or no aids to navigation and certainly without creature
comforts. Tough bunch...or perhaps crazy to do what they did?
I hold enormous admiration for their exploits and accomplishments.
Ol SOB