Oh dear.
I can post a picture of the Elbe, which I once sailed along. It's too big to dry up though. So, when the puny RAF bombed the city, there was quite enough water. It burned anyway.
Would have been better for them to have more pumps, mine does 6500 ltr/min, and my "gardenhose" is 5 inches wide
Enough of that. I also had the honour of knowing an old Spit pilot, who in his younger days would have been roughly my size or maybe a tad taller (6 foot plus). He was a decent bit taller than Rall, who's quote on the Spit cockpit I have already posted to the great dismay of SOMEBODY. Anyway, he had the opportunity to meet his brother who was in the merchant navy (after having being sunk twice!) some time in 1943/44. So, he picked him up with his Spit IX, stuffed him in the cockpit and flew back to base.
I've heard some similar tales of 109's, now that must have ben tough.
Then, onto my excel project.
It's prowling along, - basically the excel formula is ready, but I have to calculate into missing gaps.
I overestimated excel, I must confess, but fear not, for I am writing the formula in code now, and in the final version you will just have to enter alt bands and speed at those, than you can get the exact digit for every 100 feet of altitude. How about that
Oh, btw, Dan, have you been in a 109 cockpit?
Looks to me that I'd fit in there, but just so, a bit tight over the shoulders I guess.
Back to the Spitfire:
For all I know, one could crank the seat a bit up and down, to fit smaller or bigger pilots, - anything of that?
I remember a tale of a very short pilot who needed an extra cushion under the parachute. May have been one of the eagle squad pilots.
