Rabu, 13 September 2017

World War II Letters from Readers- December 2011

Doolittle’s ‘Boys’ The July/August article “Countdown to Tokyo,” which tells the story of the rush to get Jimmy Doolittle’s B-25s pre pared for the famous 1942 carrier-borne raid on Tokyo, was great. However, the authors made the classic non-pilot’s mistake about how an aircraft stalls. The engines of the aircraft were producing maximum RPMs and …

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