Water check: Special book.
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My apology, just did not want to appear to know all. The procedure used as described by Captain Smith was to catch a few drops of fuel in the cupped palm of one hand and then gently blow on the fuel to cause some evaporation. If evaporation did not occurr then the liquid was water.
" China Pilot" is a very special book. It's a book written in pilots' language that only a fellow pilot can fully understand. An example is when converting onto the C119 Felix said of the stall sequence " I shoved the nose down and the power up and tucked the sounds and feeling into my memory " It's the flying life of a soldier of fortune who upon retirement back to the USA said " the world is flat after life in asia " Michael Collins of Apollo 11 said "China Pilot " is a wonderfull book. Buy it and give yourself a treat, at the moment Amazon Books have 5 copies in stock.