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Apparently, two scrapbooks of Kelsey's are archived at the National Air and Space Museum. One is of aviation news in the 1920s near his boyhood home and the other is of his career. Here's the listing at NASM Archives. Binksternet ( talk) 23:34, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
An article for Kelsey is long overdue. That you have written it solo and in a short space of time is impressive. I usually can find something to tweak but I can't here. Cheers!-- Phyllis1753 ( talk) 22:46, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
You're welcome. I think I've seen the photo. Even though my aviation library got mostly trashed a few years ago (I had that Bodie P-38 book), my Wings/Airpower collection escaped damage. The photo (or one like it) is in one of the magazines. I met LeVier once, 25 years ago, at a lecture at NASM and he autographed my copy of "Pilot". That I still have, too. Cheers!-- Phyllis1753 ( talk) 00:07, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
Stuff I have not found yet:
IIRC, there is a "National Museum of Soaring" (don't know the exact name) in Elmira, NY. "Over the Front", was a magazine devoted to WW I aviation. I don't know if it's still published. Do you have connections with the American Aviation Historical Society? If any group would have a clue, they would. Cheers. -- Phyllis1753 ( talk) 12:15, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
I went 'round and 'round with BillCJ and Bzuk over nomenclature last April. If you want to revert, help yourself. Cheers.-- Phyllis1753 ( talk) 14:53, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
in April, 1941 the RAF sent two Spitfire Mark V fighters to Dayton for testing. The variant used a pressurized cockpit for high-altitude pilot comfort—the pilot would not have to wear an oxygen mask
This Mark of Spitfire wasn't pressurised, and even those Spitfire HF's and high-altitude Spitfire Photo-Reconnaissance (PRU) types with a pressure cabin, still required the pilot to wear an oxygen mask.
His (Benjamin S. Kelsey's) opinion isn't worth anything, as he never had to fly for his life in one. That was one of the Spitfire's strong points, and the main reason for its existence. It wasn't designed for long distance flights, it was designed for air combat above all else. That was why it was so loved by its pilots. Most of the aircraft he preferred couldn't even survive against the German opposition, at least when Germany still had the fuel and the properly-trained pilots. The Spitfire was a first-rate piston engined combat aeroplane at the start of the war, and it was still one in 1945 when the war ended.
Flying an aircraft on long distance flights is a world away from aerial combat, where an angry foreign gentleman in a first-rate combat aeroplane is doing his best to kill you. In these circumstances, in a second-rate aircraft, the loser ends up walking home, or dead.
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Apparently, two scrapbooks of Kelsey's are archived at the National Air and Space Museum. One is of aviation news in the 1920s near his boyhood home and the other is of his career. Here's the listing at NASM Archives. Binksternet ( talk) 23:34, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
An article for Kelsey is long overdue. That you have written it solo and in a short space of time is impressive. I usually can find something to tweak but I can't here. Cheers!-- Phyllis1753 ( talk) 22:46, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
You're welcome. I think I've seen the photo. Even though my aviation library got mostly trashed a few years ago (I had that Bodie P-38 book), my Wings/Airpower collection escaped damage. The photo (or one like it) is in one of the magazines. I met LeVier once, 25 years ago, at a lecture at NASM and he autographed my copy of "Pilot". That I still have, too. Cheers!-- Phyllis1753 ( talk) 00:07, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
Stuff I have not found yet:
IIRC, there is a "National Museum of Soaring" (don't know the exact name) in Elmira, NY. "Over the Front", was a magazine devoted to WW I aviation. I don't know if it's still published. Do you have connections with the American Aviation Historical Society? If any group would have a clue, they would. Cheers. -- Phyllis1753 ( talk) 12:15, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
I went 'round and 'round with BillCJ and Bzuk over nomenclature last April. If you want to revert, help yourself. Cheers.-- Phyllis1753 ( talk) 14:53, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
in April, 1941 the RAF sent two Spitfire Mark V fighters to Dayton for testing. The variant used a pressurized cockpit for high-altitude pilot comfort—the pilot would not have to wear an oxygen mask
This Mark of Spitfire wasn't pressurised, and even those Spitfire HF's and high-altitude Spitfire Photo-Reconnaissance (PRU) types with a pressure cabin, still required the pilot to wear an oxygen mask.
His (Benjamin S. Kelsey's) opinion isn't worth anything, as he never had to fly for his life in one. That was one of the Spitfire's strong points, and the main reason for its existence. It wasn't designed for long distance flights, it was designed for air combat above all else. That was why it was so loved by its pilots. Most of the aircraft he preferred couldn't even survive against the German opposition, at least when Germany still had the fuel and the properly-trained pilots. The Spitfire was a first-rate piston engined combat aeroplane at the start of the war, and it was still one in 1945 when the war ended.
Flying an aircraft on long distance flights is a world away from aerial combat, where an angry foreign gentleman in a first-rate combat aeroplane is doing his best to kill you. In these circumstances, in a second-rate aircraft, the loser ends up walking home, or dead.
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