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...added to such fundamental procedure the Germans are keeping to themselves. One possibility is that they have done away with the bomb-release button, use a photoelectric cell built into the sight to drop the bombs when the sight is on the target. Purpose of mechanical dropping is to avoid a lapse sometimes as long as one-fifth of a second between the time a bombardier sights the target and the time his mind has telegraphed the button-pushing impulse to his fingers. Split seconds in the releasing operation make yards of difference on the ground...
Only in the last five minutes did he turn to Britain. But there was still no concrete program for peace, no specific offer, no suggestion of a possible procedure. Almost as an afterthought he signified his willingness to accept Great Britain's capitulation, virtuously hoped to avoid the impending carnage...
...Where will God lead us? Not, we may be sure, through easy or pleasant paths. That is not His way. He will not help us to avoid our difficulties. What He will do is to give to those, who humbly ask, the spirit that no dangers can disturb...
Altitude Sickness. Above 15,000 ft., fliers must use oxygen to avoid altitude sickness. Fliers who do not use oxygen, and succumb to altitude sickness, do not realize their plight, for oxygen lack, like alcohol, produces an exaggerated sense of confidence. Like drunkards, they are unable to concentrate. Most fliers who are shot down, continued Dr. von Diringshofen, suffer from oxygen lack...
...centrifugal force. "In a bombing attack the bombs are often released in an almost vertical dive at a speed which may be above 310 miles an hour and are released when the aeroplane is only 2,200-1,900 feet above the ground. Immediately the bomber must ascend to avoid the ground." If such a change in direction takes place in about six seconds, the pilot is pressed into his seat with a force more than eight times his weight, and his blood becomes heavier than iron...