I had been trying to fool myself, thinking, " She's just on vacation with the Marlboro Team "; " Look, there she is in the sky, exhaling a horizon full of nimbus clouds "; or, " She went to live on a farm in the country where she could smoke all day ."
12.
Goodhart launched from Lasham at 13 : 03 and landed at Portmoak at 19 : 30 hours, after an epic flight in which he had successively used : hill-lift, thermal-lift and wave, in an epic flight that involved intentional climbs to 18, 000 ft inside a cumulo-nimbus cloud, and a further climb to 15, 500 ft inside another cumulus.
13.
Single survivor, a medical officer from RAE Farnborough, reports that the bomber entered a cumulo-nimbus cloud at 33, 000 feet ( 10, 100 m ), became heavily iced-up with hailstones entering through open gunports, after which control was lost, the port wing detached, and the fuselage broke in two at 25, 000 feet ( 7, 600 m ).
