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- 11/3/2003 6:58:53 PM

Luskan

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Ah - ok, should have known that (singapore naval base).

Still looking for those 3 photos - but can describe it. First photo is three betties in an attempted echelon left at about 200ft (but from the looks of the photo the three of them look to be at way different altitudes) dropping torps. There is a fuzzy torp in this shot - they are aiming at several transports unloading at the "end" of the harbour while the photos are taken from the "side".

Couple of little blurbs on the photos etc. There are some buildings in the background, but from the angles in the photo it didn't look like a really well built up port.

For the most part however, "pull up" room after a torpedo drop wouldn't be too great for an ordinance-free aircraft of any sort unless the port was at the bottom of a bunch of big hills of cliffs (like a fjord). Not sure seeing as i've never tried, but a decent pilot could put torps into sydney harbour in many places (as long as he didn't fly completely perpendicular to the "coasts" too far in and didn't hit the bridge etc). The angles would make for nice easy approaches from more than a few directions. Have done the heads/top of the harbour in a cessna a couple of times and there is certainly room out there (although the instructor probably would have smacked me one if i'd tried to go lower than 1000ft).

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