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24th May 2018, 03:00
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Re: C.T.P at RAE Farnborough - 1942 period + other questions (test flying)
This link has an article starting on page 52 about MET recce flights in WWII. On page 55 is mention of a method of computing altitude at night based on timing the dropping a "can" which would flash, apparently when it hit the water. That may be the "flash"
altimeter. There was a table that translated the times into altitudes. Once they had a estimate of altitude based on the flash, they could reset the aneroid altimeter to that altitude. https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documen...Operations.pdf 
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