Posted by Deere54 on April 18, 2016 at 09:09:32 from (152.119.200.151):
In Reply to: ot, loading a b-24 posted by ericlb on April 18, 2016 at 03:35:27:
Interesting anecdote about the B24: at the beginning of the war we gave some to the Brits for Lend Lease. In one unit, they reported consistently that the bomb bay doors would not open at altitude. Once the plane landed and an American crew took it up, it worked flawlessly. Then the Americans landed it and the Brits took it up again, and they still couldn't get the bomb doors to open. Then the Americam crew chief thought he'd go up with the Brit crew to see if it was somethbing they were doing. What he saw was that once the plane reached cruising altitude, the Brit crew members, having drank a lot of tea and coffee before takeoff, now had to off-load said cargo. They, one by one, went aft and relieved themselves in the bomb bay. At altitude, it was so cold that the "used coffee" instantly froze and the resulting ice jammed the doors. They were of the "roll-top" desk variety so a little ice could jam the mechanism. The cure for that particular bomb door problem, was for the crews to bring a bucket into the airplane like the Americans did.
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