re: #126 Obdicut

Higher and faster still gives you better odds even if you get intercepted; the enemy fighters have less time n you. Have you read Yeager’s autobigoraphy? I think he makes a good case for what I’m saying there. If not him, then it’s in A War to Be Won.

Not to knock Gen. Yeager, but the man was a fighter pilot, to whom speed is life. And in bombers, speed and altitude usually come at the expense of range and armament. The Mosquito certainly flew fast enough and high enough that it couldn’t be easily intercepted, but it also could only carry a maximum 4,000lb bombload. By no stretch of the imagination was it a strategic bomber.