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ArtKramr wrote:
-Subject: Flight Lessons
-From: "Paul J. Adam"
-Date: 8/7/03 10:10 AM Pacific Daylight Time
-Message-id:
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-With GPS you wouldn't need navigators, the lead pilot just follows the
-little arrow and everyone else formates on him. Big saving in manpower,
-training, and it frees up some weight per plane for more fuel or armour
-(or lets the B-26 be a little lighter)
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-Not really. In the B-26 the bombardier and the navigater was they same guy
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I gotta wonder: would the bean-counters have figured that out before or
after they removed the navigators and then sent out bombing missions?

Or ever, for that matter.


Steve