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From: rml@midnight.MV.COM (Roger M. Levasseur)
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Subject: Barrage Balloons
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Date: 2 May 91 01:49:48 GMT
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From: rml@midnight.MV.COM (Roger M. Levasseur)


Here are some numbers I have found regarding barrage balloons in WWII.

[ Don't use From as the first word in a paragraph! --CDR]

[F]rom a sidebar in "The Aeronauts" (The Epic of Flight series), pg 102

	In the first 18 months of the War - Through the peak
	of the Blitz - 102 planes collided with balloon cables over
	Britain, causing 66 confirmed crashes or forced landings.
	...
	[the balloons] ranged up to 20,000 feet.

-roger