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Dixie -> RE: OT: Planes, Planes and More Planes (6/14/2013 6:20:05 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
Martin, Martin, Martin. [sm=nono.gif] You face the pointy end of the camera OUT when taking snapshots. C'mon mate. [:-]
That's the thing with these new fangled camera phones, there's no pointy end. So it's too easy to get it wrong.
Here's one I took pointing the right way. This is just after a flypast of Boscombe Down, a place that used to be one of the most interesting airfields in the world. Home of the Empire Pilots Test School, a place where new prototypes were tested and also where captured enemy aircraft were evaluated.
The rear turret is an odd place to be. It's too small for me to sit upright so I had to lean on the guns to avoid neck pain. But after an hour I had lost the feeling in my nether regions, and that was on a warm day and a short flight. The whole tail vibrates, a lot. It's sat in the propwash from the two inboard engines and is also subject to turbulence etc to a far greater degree than the mid-upper turret. We also had the top hatches in which meant that the fuselage was full of exhaust fumes, so when myself and another chap switched places we both felt sick very quickly. [:(] Spending an hour on a summer evening is bad enough but it's nowhere near spending 6 or more hours on oxygen in the dark and freezing cold with the constant danger. No wonder the rear gunners I've met have all been short.
EDIT: It's amazing how quickly you end up feeling detached from what's going on as well. Everyone else is talking about things up ahead on the right or left and you've got no idea what is going on.
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