Checklists
I cannot remember any printed checklists on Whitleys or Halifaxes. I usually started by the door and worked clockwise round the aircraft back to the door. Inside, we started with the tail plane and rudder locks being removed and stowed, then forward to the cockpit. On Halifaxes the engineer accompanied me, but I don't remember him having a check sheet. The rest of the crew called in when they were happy with their positions and had checked oxygen and intercom, etc. When airborne, I called for a crew check every fifteen minutes. No reply from the bomb-aimer, on one occasion, undoubtably saved his life, for his oxygen mask had frozen solid at 17,000 feet.
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