"PosterBoy" writes:


"Chris Mark" wrote in message

Chris...and others interested in the above anecdote...
You would be interested in "The Thousand-Mile War" (World War Two in
Alaska and the Aleutians") by Brian Garfield.
There are a number of these 'weather' stories. In fact, the weather in the
area impacted on most of the true tales in this remarkable book. IMHBUAO.

If that is the book I recall reading a few decades ago, there was
a C-47 that took off backwards.

They were at the upwind end of the runway, but that was OK as they
had a 100Kt headwind. They pointed it into the wind, went to TO
power, and when the tail came up, released the brakes....

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