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because I periodicaly checked it with the sextant, and at altitudes above sixty thousand feet there is very seldom a high velocity wind to blow a plane off course. Still it is a uncomfortable feeling to fly for long periods of time over unfamiliar territory with an inaccurate map without being able to rely on the radio compass and also for most of the time to be above a sollid undercast.

All the above mentioned things are enough to make a flight uncomfortable without the complication of flying over a territory where you know that the people would frown upon such a flight (to put it mildly) and would do everything in their power to terminate it in any way possible.

During the first two and one-half to three hours of flying over Soviet territory I naturally felt nervous and did a log of thinking about tortures, slave labor camps and many other unplesant things. I was