WaltBJ wrote:

Here's some programs:

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7) External tank on Spitfires to bounce 109s sucking fumes on the way
home. See if they can swim the rest of the way. (Route Spits around
the battle scene to arrive at intercept points with height advantage
and lots of internal fuel. Bounce and go home.)

No, this one's not going to fly, if you'll excuse the expression. Already
by August 18th, Park had ordered his controllers not to puruse
reconnaissance a/c out to sea, and to engage major formations 'over land
or within gliding distance of the coast', to cut down on pilots being lost
over the channel. Pilot losses were starting to hurt, and they couldn't
afford to lose pilots shot down over the North Sea and Channel, but
otherwise okay at the time of bailout.

Guy