[ARC5] Basic Question on Use of Command Sets

[Jack Antonio]

One of the owners of the company I used to work for
was a B-25 pilot in the Pacific.  He was deaf in his
left ear, because of that.  The prop was very near
to the cockpit, and due to the heat, they flew with
everything open most of the time.

(I wonder, though, how much sound insulating
properties plexiglass would have had, probably not
much).

He said that most B-25 pilots were deaf in their
left ear, copilots went deaf in the right ear.

Jack Antonio WA7DIA/4


On 1/8/2011 9:32 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
> On 7 Jan 2011 at 17:49, Bob Macklin wrote:
>
>> Do you want to know the nosiest place in a bomber? It's the open waist
>> gun ports! Especially in a B-25. You are looking right at the exhaust
>> stacks!
> My understanding is that the B-25 was the loudest twin-piston-engined
> bomber ever used by the U.S. military...
>
> Then...there was the "Thunder-shreik"...
>
> Ken W7EKB
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