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(a) Damage to flaps occasioned by overshooting and applying full power with flaps down. In at least a couple of instances this damaged the flaps -- once to the extent that one flap could not be retracted --. The pilot believed it was caused by propellor blast rather than excessive speed.

(b) A flap control cable came off its pulley and necessitated a landing without flaps on a 2900-foot runway with a gross load of 39,723 pounds.

5. [[underlined]] Navigation and Route Information [[/underlined]]: I find that G-2 (Army Intelligence) has a wealth of information concerning routes, landing fields, navigational aids, etc. I have consulted the Hydrographic Office of the Navy Department, various map companies, etc. No reliable or recent information is available other than through Army G-2. I feel that any extended operations outside the United States [[underlined]] must [[/underlined]] be coordinated through Army G-2 in order to obtain reliable information concerning weather, communications, navigational aids, landing fields, [[underlined]] military activities [[/underlined]], etc.

[[underlined]] Suggestion [[/underlined]]: If operations of any kind are to be conducted outside the United States, the complete cooperation of Army G-2 [[underlined]] must [[/underlined]] be obtained. This can best be handled through Colonel Olds.

6. [[underlined]] Judgment [[/underlined]]: All possible emphasis to the students should be placed on the use of judgment. Most of the difficulties I have heard or read about in connection with foreign flights have been occasioned directly or indirectly by poor judgment. As an instance, one airplane was wrecked at E1 Obeid, sixty miles east of his destination, E1 Fashar, in Central Africa, in an attempted night landing. According to my information on this crackup, the pilot had already flown 19 hours from Takoradi, a flight which normally takes not more than nine hours. The pilot took off from Takoradi knowing that his radio was not in operation and knowing that E1 Fashar is one of the hardest of desert oases to find. I was unable to find what went wrong with his navigation, but when he arrived at El Obeid he dragged the field down wind and the British ground crew set out flare pots on the left of the runway on which he was to land. During the time that he was making his turn for his final approach, the ground crew moved the flare pots to the other side of the runway, causing the pilot to land