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This story is from Jeff Murray who flew as my co-pilot before he was promoted to Aircraft Commander. It was originally published in the 281st AHC Newsletter. It's September 1969 and I'm sitting in our temporary compound outside a Special Forces camp at Mai Loc, a few miles west of Quang Tri...

Sorry I don't remember the names of the two RR mechanics who told us this, so I can't provide a "credible source."

Britain entered WW2 in Sept 1939 and we were told it was used in the early days of the war. Your time frame for the RAF beginning to install radios in fighters in October 1939 seems to be in line with what we were told. Also hand signals are difficult to use at night.

I was a docent at a "flying museum" (all of our aircraft flew). One of our aircraft was a Spitfire. In the early days of the war, only the flight leaders had radios. They passed along the information or commands by using Morris Code on their navigation lights. The system had been disconnected...

I was a docent at a Hanger for aircraft from WW2 and prior. It wasn't a museum because all of the aircraft flew. Then it got killed by covid, but I digress. We researched all the aircraft and delighted in presenting a previously unknown fact about one of the aircraft to our fellow airplane...

The average adult would need to eat anywhere from 150 to several thousand crushed seeds (depending on the apple variety) to be at risk of cyanide poisoning. The average apple contains only about five to eight seeds. That's why they don't put warning labels on apples. ;)

I nominate "FURY". Especially the last 30 minutes when the Germans presented themselves as target practice for "FURY". Bla.

I fell asleep flying a UH1-C in Vietnam. I had flown 10 hours that day. The sun was blasting through the "greenhouse", it was very warm, and I was exhausted. We were flying strike missions in support of a Special Forces camp under siege by the NVA on the Cambodian border. We would launch from...

I graduated with class WOC class 67-19, I was made a aircraft commander after 200 hours (it took six weeks) and then transfered to guns (UH1-C's) where I flew as an A/C and fire team leader often leading Lts and captians. Not uncommon for WO's to be the command pilot, the roles were reversed...