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From: chidsey@smoke.brl.mil (Irving Chidsey)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: F/A-18 {Navy}
Message-ID: <1990Aug11.015225.20011@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 11 Aug 90 01:52:25 GMT
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From: Irving Chidsey <chidsey@smoke.brl.mil>

In article <1990Aug7.041144.7722@cbnews.att.com> huntzing@PICA.ARMY.MIL (CCL-S) writes:
<
<I first heard about it in a biography
<of Lindburg - he apparently helped a lot during WW-II despite being a
<prewar isolationist.  I think he did a duration flight with the P-38
<Lightning trying to sell it to the Navy, but all my references are too
<old (High School report, 1970's).  Anyone up on this one?

	A long time ago I read that he spent considerable time out there
teaching the pilots how to fly for maximum range.  IF my memory is correct,
he enabled them to more than double their operational range.  I think a
big part was convincing the pilots and the brass that the official cruize
speed should be ignored for if you wanted maximum range.

						Irv

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