How did Spitfire and Hurricane pilots navigate
Pootlng around Kent the other day trying to find a farm strip VFR with my visual navigation, Garmin box of tricks, VOR and so on, my brain decided to pester me with this question.
How on earth did those young pilots find their field in any weather and any visibility on their return from a no doubt trouser filling mission? What nav instruments did they have? How did they do it?
And whilst I am on the topic can someone remind me of the name of this book or story? I read it loads of times as a kid in a tatty old volume I found and it was about a pilot returning at night from a WWII mission (a twin from memory) and his search for his airfield through the dark and the clouds. It might have been called moonshine but don't trust me! I want to read it again now that I fly and will probably appreciate it even more.