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Knute Johnson
Oddly, I can't set anything apart from 25.4 mm margins on your program. I
can set one of the margins how I like, but a soon as I tab to the next
(or just click on it) the one I just changed reverts to 25.4 mm. I was
going to see what happened if I printed an image with zero width margins
all round.
PS: and OTT: Knute, I've just been watching a BBC program about D-Day
technology, which showed shots of Horsa troop-carrying gliders landing,
seen from the ground. I don't think I've even seen such steep approaches
(the Horsa could manage a 1:2 approach angle) or such low level and
sudden rotations into the flare. The film is here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b045gr8m/the-science-of-dday
though I don't know if you'll be able to see it as the BBC often limits
viewing the the UK. However, I'm told there are a lot of videos of Horsas
on U-tube. Well, there are, but most are pretty bad. This is one of the
better ones:
The BBC video is blocked. The Horsa with those big flaps would really
come down. Better than the Waco CG4As.
My folks had a friend who was a glider troop. He was training in the
the northeast US somewhere when the war ended. He told me that during
training he never "landed" in a glider. They were always destroyed when
they came to a stop. He wasn't looking forward to actually being in a
combat landing.
Have you see this video?