RF Jamming Solutions
All clothed the uniform pants. They slipped on also big socks of wool, that came by over the ordinary socks, and climbed until the knees. On the shirt, came one White sea sweater, very long for well to protect the kidneys, and, by over, the jacket of treillis. Certain preferred to carry the sweater by over the jacket of treillis. The boots completed the held flight. It there had in the RAF two sorts of boots: the filled boots in brown sweden, to zipper, and the boots of black leather in two parties, equally stuck, the lace up bottom, and the removable stem. It sufficed to remove the stem for that they have the appearance of shoes of ordinary market, more discreet if one fell in territory enemy. Comfortable to high altitude, the boots became too hot during the flights down with altitude.
It was in this held that the crews went to briefing. Records it was to present itself in uniform of statutory flight to briefing, in the measure where a superior officer in inspection could be present. After briefing, the crew withdrew itself in the vestiaires, to finish of itself equip. It is there that appeared the scarves of lively color, gift of the mother, spouse or of the fiancée. They were tolerated, because they were pleasant to carry, and that they were considered as door happiness. In the vestiaires was located all the supplementary equipment: The parachute harnesses, the pocket lamps, the “necessary of escape”. The necessary one of escape understood, in a celluloid can that took places in the pocket of the treillis alongside the leg, various essential items: matches, five cigarettes, tablets of glucose, cubes of dehydrated soup, printed cards on silk, a small compass and incidental other, including of the toilet-paper. Pilot, navigators, mechanics and radio broadband jammers no longer had than to slip on the boots filled and the jacket of returned sheep: they received in the telephone booth the hot air come motors internal, the done more come close to the fuselage, and did not need additional protection. The exit bomb jammer was different, all depending one on the time that it would have to pass in the nose of the airplane, fastened to his viseur, looking for the target or helping visual navigation. It arrived him also of duty itself install in the turret before.
The rear machine gunner was, we saw it, the done more expose to the cold one (the turret was completely isolated of the remainder of the radio frequency device and did not receive any provision of hot air), to the point that, often, the condensation of his breathing formed ice around the mouth and mask to oxygen. Of the glasses were furnished him, but they were cluttering and perturbed the vision. This is the reason why a lot of machine gunner happened some and, sometimes, had lachrymal frozen drivings. To withstand to the frozen air, the rear machine gunner clothed a heating combination, done a supple brown fabric and silky, with resistances that covered the major party of the body. It carried, well heard, of the gloves – indeed, three superimposed pairs. The first pair was done a silky material called Cellanese. Next came the electric gloves, provide with heating resistances on every finger, linked to the taken fixed nutrition to the wrist and that, when they correctly worked, were hot and comfortable but, sometimes, released an unbearable heat. Finally, came one pair of gloves of supple leather. The electric nutrition originated batteries 24 V of the airplane, refilled by two generators of 1 500 W, climbed in parallel and induced by the internal motors. These batteries furnished the electricity to all the airplane.
There did not finish itself the equipment of the rear machine gunner: came by over the combination heating, a combination of big gray gabardine with fur collar, which was not an embellishment, but an essential protection against the air currents. There was only to slip on the alvage vest, and the harness of the parachute. When the crews directed themselves towards the buses that were going to drive them towards the airplanes, one recognized by far the machine gunner to their gait of duck. Once installed with great difficulty in his turret, the machine gunner did not can practically more stir, so the place was measured. This is the reason the floating combination, outfitted internally of down, that had at once to hold hot and to serve as salvage vest, had had to be abandoned, for she was too cluttering, considering the exiguïté of the turret.
The harness of parachute devoured by over the vest of salvage. In fact, if it was necessary to jump to the over sea, the parachute could fall again on the airman, to drown it or to stifle it. It was necessary therefore proceed as follows: inflate the salvage vest when one approached water, turn the ring that closed the harness and, to the last moment, to 3 m of water, liberate the parachute, in a manner to fall in the sea without parachute. If it was necessary to abandon the airplane, the rear machine gunner was located in front of an additional difficulty: the space, in the turret, too was measured for that she is able contain the parachute. It was necessary therefore go out of the turret, take the parachute in the fuselage and to hang it to the harness before jumping, by the coming from relief in the front, by the entry door to the rear, or by the turret, according to the case.