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Old 21st Mar 2010, 23:25
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regle
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If you have, as you say, read through my threads (Starting page 13 !) then you will see that I have described exactly what you are asking. Yes it was extremely hard work, especially in the Halifax which was significantly heavier on the controls than the Lancaster but I thought that it was worth the effort and like a lot, but I fear a minority, of pilots corkscrewed practically from crossing the enemy coast until the straight and level bombing run and then I restarted until I had recrosssed the coast. Even that was not enough later on as the German intruders caught many of the returning bombers on the way out and even on the approach to land. Later on there was even a "Corkscrew" mode built into the Automatic Pilot which helped matters considerably until the Germans worked out the exact "next move" as there was no different modes built in.Keep asking , regle.