Bomber Pilots Never Look Down

"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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Bomber Pilots Never Look Down

I was surprised to learn that bomber pilots never looked down. We flew all
our
missions out of Florennes Belgium by doing our join-ups over Liege. We
would
take off, get on a climbing heading for Liege, then do a wide, slow 360
while
the group joined up, each plane getting into the slot behind the plane it
was
forming on. Then East into Germany. As a bombardier navigator, it wasn't
long
before everything on the ground was etched in my memory. Every town, city,
river, rail line, lake was as familiar to me as the back of my hand. But
not so
to many others. The war had ended and we now flew 4-hour missions to
maintain
proficiency and earn our flight pay. On one of these missions Paul, our
pilot
said, "Art, we are just going to do some stalls and engine outs so why
don't
you go back into the nav compartment and take a snooze".

You took a snooze while he stalled the plane?