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RE: "Lee light" and "Huff Duff&quot
Posted by: Wheete ()
Date: June 24, 2000 06:23AM

I wonder how successful the "leighlight" system were. My experiences at sea at night is that you can usually hear an airplane before you can see it. If someone were to fly around looking for me with a big "flash light", then it is pretty evident that I would see him way longer before he sees me and would simply crash dive and be gone. How ever without a flash light I might stay on the surface believing that I might be a passing airplane.

Most U-Boat captains crash dove extremely fast when it came to airplanes, many times so fast that some of their crew didn't make it in time and got washed overboard.

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"Lee light" and "Huff Duff" Les 06/12/2000 07:32AM
RE: "Lee light" and "Huff Duff&quot Sergio Ferraro 06/12/2000 08:08AM
RE: "Lee light" and "Huff Duff&quot SuperKraut 06/12/2000 01:16PM
RE: "Lee light" and "Huff Duff&quot Kevin 06/12/2000 03:41PM
RE: "Lee light" and "Huff Duff&quot Anders Wingren 06/12/2000 05:48PM
RE: "Lee light" and "Huff Duff&quot Anders Wingren 06/12/2000 09:29PM
RE: "Lee light" and "Huff Duff&quot Kevin Mc Dermott 06/17/2000 09:16AM
RE: "Lee light" and "Huff Duff&quot Wheete 06/24/2000 06:23AM
RE: "Lee light" and "Huff Duff&quot Anders Wingren 06/24/2000 09:46AM


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