Ephexis
Active Member
The Dambusters is also a tremendous story of simply amazing courage and ability.
It was another audacious plan, and was pulled off by the pilots. The simple fact they flew at up to around 150 feet for the entire duration of the pitch black night flight from England to the dams in Germany with no radar or any other technical aids is godlike. If you consider how cumbersome and hard to manouvre a lancaster bomber was, travelling at such speed in total darkness at a ridiculously low altitude without crashing...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastise
Can read about it here, although it's Wikipedia it's better than nothing
It was another audacious plan, and was pulled off by the pilots. The simple fact they flew at up to around 150 feet for the entire duration of the pitch black night flight from England to the dams in Germany with no radar or any other technical aids is godlike. If you consider how cumbersome and hard to manouvre a lancaster bomber was, travelling at such speed in total darkness at a ridiculously low altitude without crashing...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastise
Can read about it here, although it's Wikipedia it's better than nothing