There was also the Dornier which crashed just outside Victoria Station, Members of its crew landed by parachute on the Kensington Oval while the Hurricane t who had shot it down and whose aircraft had gone into an uncontrollable spin when the enemy blew up beneath him, landed safely in Chelsea, Nevertheless, the yellow-nosed squadrons, the elite of the German Air Force, acquitted themselves bravely and showed greater skill than their less well-trained comrades, It was observed that they usually attacked in pairs disposed in line astern some 75 yd. apart, Occasionally, fire at long range proved effective. Close-range combat was the rule, but it is recorded that a Hurricane pilot fired at an enemy aircraft moving faster than his own and about to get out of ranz" and hit it at 800 yd. This caused it to slow v: his second burst was fired from 500 yd. Eves he finished it off at 25 yd, Another Hurricane who had broken off a fight because the cooling system of the engine of his aircraft was giving trouble, and who was therefore returning to base, encountered a lone Me, 109 which he stalked out of the sun and shot down from 500 yd.
At this stage in the fight it became clear that the enemy bomber pilots felt themselves to be no match for the British, It was generally observed that as soon as contact was established, they: jettisoned their bombs, then broke formation and turned. at once for their base, Thus, 20 Dornier 215's were encountered over the London docks flying in a diamond formation escorted b$ Mee. 109's "stepped up" to 22,00 ft, The bombers were broken up by a level quarter attack and this enabled On September 15, "The Greater Day," two raids came over in the morning, two more im the after loss of two German planes per fighting minute. Of the 270 planes in the morning raids, 70 were Selentists were mystified at first by trails whicn are seen only sometimes. Trails are caused by sudden condensation of moist ait and low-pressure area over plane wings,
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