UPDATED 7 March 2013 James Bond Meets The Right Stuff: Ian Fleming By Air! By Mike Sparks HIGH ALT IT UDE 1 Photo Reconnaissance Unit (PRU) LOW ALT IT UDE James Bond is For Real. CAVEAT: Our story begins whenever man was able to fly: there is substantial evidence that before the universal flood mankind with knowledge direct from the Creator was able to fly in our atmosphere and space and even waged nuclear wars using a form of anti-gravity craft (AGC). The "magic carpet" stuff from India is a mere literary trace of a shocking reality far greater and ominous. In short, man ever since the flood with lesser life spans has been in a game of "catch up" trying to regain the lost knowledge and technologies we already had but lost. Most secret societies are based on this quest and use what esoteric knowledge they have recovered as proof of their supernatural right to rule the rest of us, not making sure first that they are not playing for the wrong team again as before. Post-Flood Aerospace Reconnaissance: Height Above All Gary Powers in partial pressure suit by his U-2 There is a reason why the U-2 is still in use as a reconnaissance aircraft: it flies very high--at 70, 000+ feet there isn't very much in the way of anti-aircraft weaponry that can hit it--unless you are a sophisticated nation-state with a lot of money to create high-altitude surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) and the radars to guide them. Even if manned recon high altitude aircraft are now being supplanted by drones, they will be around for many years collecting the data that can be obtained from the edge of the atmosphere. Prop Spy Planes As the 2IC of British Naval Intelligence during WW2, Commander Ian Fleming worked closely with pal Sidney Cotton's 1 PRU which did both low-altitude and high-altitude photo reconnaissance against the Axis powers. This intel was used to direct military actions which could be to send in agents like his 30 Assault Unit to capture documents and equipment/personnel and/or destroy important targets--like the V weapons sites--by air or ground strikes. The British are masters at countering enemy photo recon by creating dummy weapons and fake units best described in Anthony Cave Brown's masterpiece Body Guard of Lies. Before the WW2, Cotton (a WW1 seaplane fighter pilot) modified a twin-engined Lockheed Electra business plane to have hidden cameras for covert high altitude recon of Nazi Germany. This precedent of having civilian airplanes covertly spy sometimes has tragic consequences as seen in the KAL007 shoot-down of a 747 airliner deliberately sent astray in order to be shot-down by Soviet fighters to fan the flames of the Cold War to sustain Reagen-era budgets. During WW2, Cotton modified single-engined photo recon planes like the Spitfire created by the financing of Canadian businessman and British Security Coordination (BSC) master spy William Stephenson ("The Man Called Intrepid") that when not shooting down German planes or dive-bombing V-1 and V-2 launch sites guided by British radar--was modified to cruise at 40, 000 feet unarmed to be fast to evade shoot- downs from other prop-driven fighters with guns. RAF wing commander Fred Winterbotham who conceived of the special heating system to enable camera lens to work at high altitude does not appear to have been friends with Fleming as they both fought over use of Cotton's Electra undercover spy plane. youtube.com/watch?v=rrmNfz4X5GY In contrast, the Germans did not do air recon well; they placed cameras in aircraft that were INFERIOR in flight performance to Allied types, then wondered why they were constantly shot-down? If allowed to fly-over, they took photos of the deceptive decoys we wanted them to see--as per the Body Guard of Lies accounts. Maritime Reconnaissance USN Ensign (2LT) Leonard Smith radios the German battleship Bismarck's location: Sealing It's fate Getting comprehensive and persistent 24/7/365 coverage over the ocean is still a huge task today even with surveillance satellites. Flying land-based patrol planes has shown to not work as gaps invariably develop when planes leave to return to base or simply cannot reach the area. The UAV is going to prove to be an expensive Band-Aid to human maritime patrol planes once they start to crash. The best answer has always been SEAPLANES that can land on the water and be refueled and keep going. Small seaplanes operated by cruisers and battleships have been decisive numerous times at finding the enemy and should be used to insure air defense: combatreform.org/seaplanefighters.htm Large seaplanes can cover the oceans and be refueled at sea and sink capital ships all by themselves: combatreform.org/p6mseamaster.htm The painting above shows a RAF PBY Catalina seaplane flown by an American pilot, Ensign Leonard Smith and his crew "finding" the German battleship Bismarck when in actuality it was sent as a cover story since an American Coast Guard cutter Modoc patrolling the Bay of Biscay off the coast of France (!) had earlier saw the great ship breaking the horizon and radioed its location. [See A Man Called Intrepid, pages 259, 263-265] To preserve American political neutrality, a seaplane was sent over to deceive the Germans so when their battleship was sunk it was because of maritime air reconnaissance not that their codes were broken or America was covertly fighting them. The British often used seaplanes to provide cover for their ULTRA secret those times when spying found their targets and not from air reconnaissance by itself. Stealth by Wearing the Enemy's Colors and Markings The first thing that comes to mind is to capture enemy aircraft and keep them painted in their colors and fly them to sneak in and out. For details: combatreform.org/axisandalliedspecialoperationsaviation.htm Stealth by Paint and Lights During the day, objects in the air appear DARK when looked on from the ground. combatreform.org/camie.htm The best way to blend into the sky during the day was to use LIGHTS and light colors or no colors--see through skins like the WW1 Rumpler Taube recon plane. youtube.com/watch?v=scrcLT2JvqM Stealth by Construction Stevenson reveals that one of the reasons the Mosquito was made of wood was to be radar elusive. On pages 478-482, he writes about a Moon squadron Mosquito rescuing nuclear physicist Niels Bohr from Sweden inside it's bomb bay: xxxxxxxxxx Moon Squadron Web Site tempsford.20m.com/agents.html faqs.org/docs/air/avmoss.html ...the Mosquito performed its first sortie in September 1941. On 18 September, Squadron Leader Rupert Clerke and his observer, Sergeant Sowerbutts, of the RAF Number 1 PRU took off in a Mosquito PR.I on a mission to Southern France. Intelligence suggested that the Nazis were massing troops to occupy Spain, and the Mosquito was to check it out. However, the aircraft's electrical generator failed and the batteries ran down, rendering the cameras so much dead weight. The Mosquito had to return to base. In some compensation, the aircraft was jumped by three Messerschmitt Bf-109s but easily outran them, no doubt leaving behind very baffled Luftwaffe pilots wondering what the hell they had been chasing. The same Mosquito performed another reconnaissance mission over Southern France two days later, on 20 September, with Flight Lieutenant Alistair Taylor at the controls. The mission was successful, and from that time on Number 1 PRU's began to range widely over Western Europe. Unfortunately, Taylor and his Mosquito were lost ten weeks later, shot down by German flak during a mission against Trondheim and Bergen, Norway. It was the Mosquito's first combat loss. * A total of 20 Mosquitos were completed by the end of 1941. While reconnaissance machines were the immediate priority, some Mosquito bomber and night-fighter variants were delivered to RAF frontline squadrons during the winter of 1941:42, but foul weather kept them from seeing much combat during that time. The first Mosquito bomb raid was on 31 May 1942, as a follow-up to the first RAF "thousand bomber raid", performed on Cologne the night before. Five B.IVs were sent in singly to hit Cologne during the day to keep the Germans off-balance. It wasn't a very good use of the machine, and one was shot down by flak, allowing the Germans to examine the wreckage. Ironically, the existence of the Mosquito remained an official secret for some time after that, with one British newspaper called to task by the authorities for mentioning it. Bomber Command didn't really know what to do with the Mosquito and remained unenthusiastic about it, all the more so because subsequent bombing missions with the machine produced lower-than-average results and higher-than-average losses. The German Focke-Wulf FW-190 proved able to perform a dive from altitude and "creep up" on the Mosquito, with crews unable to do anything but pray as they had no way to shoot back. The Soviets had developed an "aerial mine", a small fragmentation bomb on a parachute, to deal with comparable situations and apparently with good effect, but if the RAF thought of it they decided against it. Gradually, various engineering refinements, such as the jet-boost exhausts and improved engines, increased the gap between the Mosquito and the FW-190. Pilots also learned they could shake the FW.190 by going into a shallow dive and performing a corkscrew maneuver, since the Focke Wulf's controls tended "freeze up" at high speeds more quickly than those of the Mosquito.