Advice from Charles Lindbergh

[Orest @ CYFD]

Reading through The Marines' Lost Squadron, The Odessey of VMF-422. Very familiar sounding advice, from 1944 no less...

In June, he (Lindbergh) joined the US Army’s 475th Fighter Group, known as “Satan’s Angels,” who flew the famed P-38 Lightning in New Guinea. The army pilots knew full well that Lindbergh knew how to get the most out of a gallon of gas. He taught the pilots how to extend the maximum range of the Lightning by almost three hundred miles by running on a lean mixture, raising manifold pressure and lowering revolutions per minute. It was a major boost to the P-38’s capabilities.

 

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